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πατρὸς ' ἔχειν' 2. καὶ ὑμεῖς * πεφυσιωµένοι ἐστέ; καὶ οὐχὶ μᾶλλον & See iv. 6.
b 2 , ° i2 Ae Ks ok Ce in ς Ελ oP 21; James
pmeamre; ἵνα ἐξαρθῇ ἐκ "μέσου ὑμῶν ὁ τὸ ᾿ έργον seni reyes Soa ποιήσας”; 3. ἐγὼ ™pev ™yap ὡς ὃ " ἀπὼν τῷ "σώματι, " παρὼν δὲ ο. τῷ "πνεύµατι, ἤδη Ῥκέκρικα ὡς " παρὼν τὸν οὕτω τοῦτο Ἱκατερ- πα ι { 7 xvi. 18;
Lk. vi. 25. i Col. ii. 14; Mk. xiii. 15 πα XVii. 15, xxi. Ε. k 2 Cor. vi. 17 (Isa. lii. 11); Col. ii. 14;
2 Thess. ii. 7; Acts xvii. 33, xxiii. 10; Mt. xiii. 49. 1 In this sense, Mt. xxiii. 3; Lk. xi. 48; Jo.
Vili. 41. m See xi. 18. viii. το; Eph. iv. 4; 1 Thess. v. 23. vii. 8 ff.
1αρθῇῃ: all unce. but L.
2a patas (?), NAC, several good minn. ; so Tisch., W.H., Nestle. ποιησας, BDGLP, etc. (vg. fecit)—probably Western and Syrian.
n 2 Cor. x. 1 f., 11, xiii. 2, 10; Phil. i. 27; Col. ii. 5. p Pf., vii. 37. See ii. 2.
ο vii. 34; Rom. q In like sense, Rom.i . 27, ii. 9,
Latt. gessit. So Ττερ., El.,
5 Om. ως (απων) SABCD*P 17, 37, vg., syrsch. cop.
formula Περὶ δὲ ὧν ἐγράψατέ por, must not be allowed to break the strong links of subject-matter and thought binding it to chh. v. and vi. Its connexion with the foregoing context is essential, with the following comparatively accidental.
§ 15. THE CASE oF INCEST, v. 1-8. About the party-strifes at Cor. P. has been informed by the members of a par- ticular family (i. 11); the monstrous case of incest, to which he turns abruptly and without any preface (cf. i. το), is notorious.
Ver. 1. “Odws ἀκούεται κ.τ.λ.: ‘¢ There is actually fornication heard of amongst you!” No wonder that the father of the Church is compelled to show the ‘“‘rod”’ (iv. 21). Not ἀκούω, as in xi. 18, but the impersonal ἀκούεται (cf. ἠκούσθη, Mark ii. 1), indicating common report in the Church (ἐν tpiv),—and (ὅλως: see parls.) undoubted fact. — Πορνεία signifies any immoral sexual relation, whether includ- ing (as in Matt. v.. 32) or distinguished from (Matt. xv. 19) μοιχεία.
The sin is branded as of unparalleled blackness by the description, καὶ τοιαύτη πορνεία ἥτις κ.τ.λ.: ‘ Yes, and a fornica- tion of such sort”—the καί climactic— “as (there is) not even among the Gentiles!”” While mere πορνεία was ex- cused—not to say approved—in heathen society, even by strict moralists, such foulness was abominated. Of this crime the loose Catullus says (76. 4): ‘‘Nam nihil est quidquam sceleris quo prodeat ultra”’; and Cicero, pro Cluent., 6, 15: “‘scelus incredibile, et preter hanc unam in omni vita inauditum”’; Euripides’ H7f- polytus speaks for Gr. sentiment. Greek and Roman law both stamped it with infamy; for Jewish Jaw, see Lev. xviii. 7 f., Deut. xxi 30 also Sen. xlix. 4.—
ῆτις, of quality (as in iii. 17), in place of the regular correlative ota (xv. 48). Neither ὀνομάζεται (T.R.) nor ἀκούεται is understood in the ellipsis, simply ἐστίν —‘‘such as does not exist’’; the excep- tional heathen instances are such as to prove the rule. The actual sin is finally stated: ὥστε yuvatka τινα κ.τ.λ., “as that one (or a certain one) should have a wife of his father”.—#ts defines the quality, ὥστε (with inf.) the content and extent of the πορνεία.--γυν. τοῦ πατρός (instead of μητρυίαν) is the term of Ley. xvilil. 8. ἔχειν indicates a continued as- sociation, whether in the way of formal marriage or not; nor does ἔργον (2), nor κατεργασάµενον (3), make clear this latter point. That “the father’ was living is not proved by the ἀδικηθεὶς of 2 Cor. vii. 12; P. can hardly have referred to this foul immorality in the language of 2 Cor. il, 5-11, vil., 8-125 the “στα” . and “wrong ’’ of those passages are probably quite diff. The woman was not a Chris- tian, for Paul passes no sentence upon hers See ver. 13.