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Vers, among] ) in your name [case]. — vopvela, xai roiavrrj vopnia, fornication and such fornication) An important repetition ; by which the Corinthians might be more affected. — oud's, not even) It was a crime not named even among the Gentiles, with the exception of a few monsters ; u<sn is the Protherapeia1 of the fol- lowing clause. The apostle shows, that such infamous conduct was held in abhorrence even by the Gentiles. — ywaTzu, wife) She was no doubt a heathen ; therefore he does not direct his rebuke against her, ver. 12, 13. The father, we may suppose, was dead. — s%g/v, should have ) by a single act, or by habitual intercourse, ver. 2, 3.
2. Ka i vfjusTg, and ye) He presses their sin home to them. — ‘7re(pvffiu{Aevoi, puffed up) [as if you were free from blame in the matter . — V.g.] — The force of the word is evident from its anti- thesis, to mourn . — ears, ye are) hitherto. — krsvGvjgart, you have mourned) Paul himself wrote these words mourning, nay weep- ing ; 2 Cor. ii. 4 ; we should mourn over the transgressions of others; 2 Cor. xii. 21, and repent of our own ; and we should do both as regards the first and original sin. — ha, that) you have felt no grief, which might stir you up, that , etc. — -apQ 5j, he might be taken away) Paul has already in his mind what he is about to write at ver. 13. — a/psiv is a milder wrord here, than s^aipsiv after- wards.2
3. ’E yw pi v yap , I indeed for my part) An antithesis between the lighter punishment, which would have been inflicted by the Corinthians, and the severer one, which is threatened by Paul : thence also we have in ver. 2, cro/jj(ra$, he that hath done , a gentler expression ; but in ver. 3 xanpyuGagsivov, he that hath perpetrated, a much more severe expression. Afterwards the Corinthians did what they ought, 2 Cor. ii. 6. Therefore the severer punish- ment pronounced on the sinner (here in ver. 5) admitted of being superseded. Thence arose the joy of Paul, 2 Cor. i. 24, ii. 1, etc. — rut meufiari, in spirit) Col. ii. 5, 2 Kings v. 26. — ijSrj zsTcpixu, I have already judged) A weighty effect is produced by the sense of the sentence continuing to be gravely suspended and poised [as it were a lance], till we come to ver. 5, where
1 See App. Anticipatory mitigation of what follows.
2 To g gyov, the daring deed ) It was a wicked action, without marriage.
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