17. Tovro) this, which follows. — vapayy'sXXUf [Engl. Vers. I declare ] I command) in the name of the Lord, ver. 23, xiv. 37. — ovtc enaivuv, not praising) the opposite is, I praise, ver. 2. The two parts into which this chapter is divided, are closely connected by this antithesis ; in the one the Corinthians were regarded as well-disposed, in the other, as committing sin. — s/g rb xpsTrrov, for the better) An assembly of believers ought always to be pro- gressing towards that, which is better. — s/g ro yrrov, for the worse) and therefore for condemnation, ver. 34. At first Paul speaks more gently, xpefrrov, %rrov, form a paranomasia.1
18. n pobrov, first) This word, when secondly does not follow, gives the discourse a degree of characteristic ijdog or feeling .2 Their assembly, even in the use of the gifts, might be held by the Corinthians for the better, xiv. — lv rj j ixxXqcr/cf, in the church) The church here approaches to the signification of the place of meeting. Wi ro avro, into one place , [ where it is right, that all things should be arranged with a view to harmony. — V. g.] — (r^/V/Aara) divisions, not only in your mental opinions, ch. i. 10, but also as to your outward meetings, ver. 21. — p'spog n, partly) He excepts the innocent, and uses a mild term. — mmuw, I believe) while his love was unaffected by it, ch. xiii. 7.
19. K ai a)pUzig, also heresies) Schisms and heresies are here applied to one thing ; nor is the also intended to make a dis- tinction ; but this is its meaning : not only many good things, not merely small stumbling-blocks, viii. 9, are found among you, but there must be also heresies, or different opinions and schisms, which generally arise out of them. Now there is at once both necessity for these and it is profitable to the godly, where men less approved are mixed up with them. A schism is a mutual separation ; heresy is the separation of one party from the unity of the Church, in regard either to faith, or worship. — oi doxifioi, those approved) Therefore there were at least some such persons among them. A conciliatory (uarsfog) mode of expression ; for what he really meant to say, was, that those less approved should be openly manifested.
20. ^vvip^o/jjsmv oh vfjjw v, when ye come together therefore) The
1 See App. The two words by the similiarity of sound forming the more striking contrast. — Ed.
2 Appendix on moratus Sermo.