_THE INCESTUOUS PERSON SHOULD BE A CAUSE OF SHAME UNTO THEM, AND NOT OF REJOICING. THE OLD LEAVEN IS TO BE PURGED OUT. HEINOUS OFFENDERS ARE TO BE SHUNNED AND AVOIDED._ _Anno Domini 57._ THE messengers from Corinth, as well as the members of the family of Chloe, had informed the Apostle, that one... [ Continue Reading ]
IT IS REPORTED COMMONLY— Whoever reads attentively 2 Corinthians 1:20.—ii. 11 will easily perceive that the last verse of the preceding chapter is an introduction to the just act of discipline which St. Paul was going to exercise among them, though absent, as if he had been present; and therefore th... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP, &C.— _And yet ye are elated, instead of mourning, as ye ought to do, in order to the expulsion of him who hath committed this._ At that timethechurchusedpublichumiliations, with fasting and tears, when they passed a sentence of excommunication. Heylin.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PRESENT IN SPIRIT— Some think this refers to an extraordinary gift which St. Paul had of discerning clearly and circumstantially what was done at a distance. Comp. Colossians 2:5. Exodus 5:26 and Dr. Benson's Hist. vol. 2: p. 16.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST— _That ye, being gathered together in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ,_ 1 Corinthians 5:5 _do deliver such a one to Satan,_ &c. Some think, that as _Satan_ is considered as the head of all who are not unde... [ Continue Reading ]
YOUR GLORYING IS NOT GOOD— Some would read this interrogatively,—_Have you not a fine subject for boasting?—Glorying_ or boasting is throughout the beginning of this Epistle spoken, of the preference they gave to their new leader, in opposition to St. Paul. See Locke, and 2 Corinthians 12.... [ Continue Reading ]
PURGE OUT THEREFORE THE OLD LEAVEN— The Apostle continues the figure from unleaved bread, 1 Corinthians 5:6 with a particular view to the Jewish passover, in which it was forbidden. "As therefore it was the manner of the Jews at their passover, especially on the day of preparation, to search diligen... [ Continue Reading ]
I WROTE, &C.— _I have written unto you in an_ [_this_] _Epistle._ Instead of _fornicators,_ in this and the following verses, some very properly render the original word πορνοι, by _lewd persons,_ as it is plain the Apostle intended the word should be taken in that extent; his argumentconcluding yet... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHAT HAVE I TO DO, &C.— _Have I any thing to do to judge those which are without? No, judge ye them that are within;_ 1 Corinthians 5:13. (_But those that are without God judgeth_) _and ye shall take away_ THE EVIL _from among you._ See Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 17:7. In the words _those tha... [ Continue Reading ]