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dren in one family, but like a number of strangers of various kinds in a large inn.
12. T / yap [iot xat rovg e£co xpivstv ; ovy) rovg v/isTg xphtrt ;) Artemonius, p. 212, refers to the conjecture of Le Clerc, and after changing a few words presents it in this form : ri ydg fiot xat roTg g£« ; xat vvv ovv rovg scu v/ietg xpt'vsrs. There are here various changes of letters, by which the word xpmtv, the most necessaiy of them all, is cancelled. If the meaning of Paul had been, what have I to do with those that are without ? the Greek idiom would have required s/iot, not [iot . T/ yap fiot xat rovg s xphsiv, viz. scri ; for what have I to do to judge those thdt are without ? (Verbals [such as Bengel’s u externos judicatio”~\ govern the case of the verb, ex. gr . : Curatio hanc rem , tak- ing charge of this matter.) Expressions very similar occur, hart [iot Zf v, Gen. xxvii. 46 : ov cot, O^/os, dv/iiacai, 2 Chron. xxvi. 18 : ovx sen yap yaipztv, hiyet K vpto.g, ro7g affe(3e<ftvy Is. xlviii. 22 : oftoog [ii[ yhrirat avrui xpovorptfiriffai, Acts xx. 16 : rrodsv cot ravra std'ivat, Uippolytus de antichristo, chap. 32. These remarks apply to the whole sentence ; we shall now consider the words one by one. — xa /') also, which intimates, that those, who are within , give me enough to do.1 — xphetv, to judge) He judges, who is not mixed up with them, does not keep company with them. — ovyj, do not ye ?) From what is wont to occur in the Church, you ought to have interpreted my admonition, alluded to in ver. 9, You judge your fellow-citizens, not strangers ; how much more should I % You judge , will thus signify righteous judgment. But this may also be a previous [anticipatory], and, that too, a seasonable sting to the Corinthians, who were judging [bringing before heathen courts of justice] them that were within , while [though] they considered the saints removed [exempt] from judgments concerning things pertaining to this life , vi. 1, 2, 3.
13. Tovg ds them that are without) The knowledge con- cerning the destruction or salvation of the Gentiles is a matter reserved for God alone. — xptvz?, shall judge) Bom. ii. 16. Supply,
1 This very particle xocl,also, however, is considered of less importance in the 2d, than in the 1st Ed., and it is entirely omitted in the Germ. Vers. — E. B.
ABCG Vulg. Memph. fg (ante-Hieron. Lat.) Versions omit koc.1. D and later Syr. retain kuL — Ed.
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