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you, in consequence of conversion, vi. 11. — rb -rac^a, the pass- over) The epistle was written about the time of the passover, xvi. 8. — ijfiuvf [ our or] of us) Christians. The Jewish passover was a type of the Christian and new passover. — srvhi) was sacri- ficed. Paul speaks in the past time ; he was much more likely to speak in the present, as his scope so required, if he had acknowledged the sacrifice of the Mass. Hesychius : stftpdyv).
8. 'e let us keep the feast) The Vulgate has epulemur, “ let us feast an apposite expression. — craXa/a, with the old) of Judaism and heathenism. These constitute the genus. — xax/ag xal Kovriplag) These constitute the species : xax/a is vice, the reverse of virtue, and that too, virtue unmixed, or in sin- cerity, rr\ iiXntpm'nx,. wovripta, is in those, who strenuously retain and defend tluxiocv, and is opposed, ry aXyOzia, to the truth. Ammonius writes thus : Kovripbg, 6 dpagnzbg xoixou, he who is dis- posed to do evil;1 comp. ver. 13. Sincerity takes care not to allow evil to be mixed up with good ; truth , not to allow evil to be mistaken for good.
9. “Eypa^a, I wrote) A new part of the epistle, corresponding to the former part ; comp. ver. 1. — h rr\ imtroXjj, in the epistle) written before this one. The Corinthians had not sufficiently understood it ; he now therefore explains it. There is no doubt, that Paul and Peter and the rest of the apostles wrote many things, which are not now extant ; comp. xvi. 3 ; 2 Cor. x. 10. — pri <swava[jj'iyv\)(sdcu , not to he mixed together) in the way of associa- tion ; ver. 11 at the end. — vropvoig, with fornicators) vopvog , on other occasions signifies a male prostitute, but here it applies to every one, who commits fornication. Supply here also from ver. 11, or covetous , etc.
10. Ka /) and that. — ov <rdvrwg, not altogether) What is here said is not a universal, but a particular negative, Rom. iii. 9, note. — rov xoa/xou rovrov , of this world) [ there is no place wherein you may not fall in with the covetous and extortioners , etc. — V. g.] In antithesis to a brother , ver. 11. 2 — upnafyv, extortioners) He
1 K coda, is the evil habit of the mind : TrovYiplu , the outcoming of the same. Calvin defines kockioc, “animi pravitas,” on Eph. iv. 32. novYipo; is « '7roipt%av ivbvovg. See Trench, Syr. Gr. Text. — Ed.
2 wteoviKTcug, covetous) Those greedy of gain for themselves. — V. g.
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