Ver. 2. What are the Cor. doing under this deep disgrace? Not even grieving. Καὶ ὑμεῖς πεφυσιωμµένοι ἐστέ;: «.t.A.: “And are you (still) puffed up? and did you not rather mourn?” For the grammatical force of πεφυσ. ἐστέ, see parls. in i. το, iv. 8; and for the vb., note to iv. 6. P. confronts the pride of the Cor. Church with this crushing fact; no intellectual brilliance, no religious en- thusiasm, can cover this hideous blot: ‘‘argumentatur a contrario, ubi enim luctus est, cessit gloria” (Cv.). The ver. is best read interrogatively, in view of the οὐχὶ in 2nd clause (cf. i. 20), and in Paul’s expostulatory style (cf. iv. 7 f.).— ἐπενθήσατε (see paris.) connotes funeral
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ασάμενον ἐν τῶ ὀνόματι τοῦ Κυρί ‘uv 1 Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.; ία Ὑασάμενον, 4. A μ τοῦ Κυρίου rpa ησοῦ Χριστού, r θέ ε ~ ‘ α ϱ 3 A sg , st ~ εδ - συναχθέντων ὑμῶν καὶ of " ἐμοῦ "πνεύματος σὺν τῇ ' δυνάμει τοῦ
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14, ΧνΙ. 18; 2 Cor.
ii, 13, vii. 13; Rom.i.9; Gal. vi. 18; Phil. iv. 23; Phm. 25; 2 Tim. iv. 22; Mk. ii. 8, vill. 12; Luke
i. 47, ΠΠ. 55-
Cor. ii. 11, xi. 14, xii. 7; Rom. xvi. 20; 1 T Rev., passim.
_t2 Cor. xii-9; 2 Pet. i. 16; Lk. ν. 17. 11, vii. 15, 28, xvi. 16, 18; 12 times besides in P.; 3 Jo. 8; Mt. xix. 14; Ac. xxii. 22.
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W Vii. 5; 2
εν 18; 2 Th. ii. ο: 1 Tim. i. 20, v.15; Gospp. and x1 Th.v.3; 2 Th.i.9; x Tim. vi.g; Prov. xxi. 7.
γα Cor. vii. 1; Rom. i,
3 f.; Col. ii. 5; 1 Tim. iii. 16; Heb. xii.g; M . xxvi. 41.
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Ομ. Χριστον SABDP 46.
mourning—over ‘a brother dead to God, by sin, alas! undone;” the fense signi- fies “ going into mourning ”—“ breaking out in grief’? (Ev.) when you heard of it. Of such grief the fit sequel is expressed by ἵνα ἄρθῃ ἐκ µέσου ὑμῶν, “that he should be removed from your midst, who so perpetrated this deed”. This is the later Gr. “sub-final”’ ftva, of the desired result: see Wr., p. 420; Bm., p. 237; cf. xiv. 12 f.—mpakas, as distinguished from ποιήσας (T.R.), implies quality in the action (see parls.).
Vv. 3-5. The removal of the culprit is, in any case, a settled matter: ἐγὼ μὲν yap, “For J at least’? . . . ἤδη κέκρικα, “have already decided ”’—without waiting till you should act or till I could come. For ἤδη see note, iv. 8; κέκρικα, pf. of judgment that has determinate efiect.— μέν solitarium— I indeed (whatever you may do)”.—arav τῷ σώματι παρὼν δὲ τῷ πνεώματι, “while absent in the body yet resent in the spirit’”’: by absence the Ap. might seem disqualified for judg- ing (cf. 2 Cor. xii. 20-xili. 2); he declares that he is spiritually present, so present to his inmost consciousness are the facts of the case; cf. Col. ii. 5. “St. Paul’s spirit, illumined and vivified, as it un- questionably was, by the Divine Spirit, must have been endowed on certain occasions with a more than ordinary insight into the state of a Church at a distance” (Ev.; cf. John i. 48; 2 Kings ν. 26): “I have already passed sentence, as one present, on him that has so wrought this thing”. ὡς παρὼν means ας being present,” not ‘as though present”’—which rendering virtually sur- renders the previous ἁπών ... παρὼν δέ. ---κατεργάζομαι, to work out, consummate (see parls.); the qualifying οὕτως pro- bably refers to the man’s being a Chris-