tian (cf. 12 f.)—* under these conditions ” (cf. iti. 16 f., vi. 15).
The judgment already determined in the Apostle’s mind is delivered in ver. 5, supplying a further obj. (of the thing ; cf. for the construction, Acts xv. 38) to κέκρικα: “I have already judged him . . . (have given sentence), in the name of our Lord Jesus, to deliver him that is such (τὸν τοιοῦτον) to Satan for destruc- tion of his flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus”. The clauses of ver. 4, with their solemn, rounded terms, make fit way for this awful sentence ; “‘ graviter suspensa manet et vibrat oratio usque ad νετ. 5” (Bg.). The prp. phrases ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τ. Kup. Ἰ., σὺν τ. δυνάµει τ. κυρ. ἡμῶν Ἰ., may be connected, either of them or both, with παραδοῦναι or with the subordinate συναχθέντων; and the four combinations thus grammatically possible have each found advocates. The order of words and balance of clauses, as well as in- trinsic fitness of connexion, speak for the attachment of the former adjunct to παραδ. ΣαΤ., the latter to συναχθ. ὑμῶν: so Luther, Bg., Mr., Al., Ev., Bt., El. “In the name of the Lord Jesus” every Church act is done, every word of bless- ing or banning uttered; that Name must be formally used when doom is _pro- nounced in the assembly (see parls.). The gen. abs. clause is parenthetic, supplying the occasion and condition precedent (aor. ptf.) of the public sentence; all the responsible parties must be concurrent: ““when you have assembled together, and my spirit, along with the power of our Lord Jesus”. Along with the gathered assembly, under Paul’s unseen directing influence, a third Supreme Presence is necessary to make the sen- tence valid; the Church associates itself
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ne prayepurs οὖν 3 τὴν ών, [ύμην, ἵνα ῆτε νέον ή ceeded ’ > »” ὃς ‘ By \ , con ς \ Sa μδ PH P,: 5, ii, καθώς ἐστε ' ἄζυμοι: καὶ γὰρ τὸ "πάσχα ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ** ἐτύθη με, ii.12, Mt. xv. 26, xxvi. 10; Lk. xxi. 5. b ix. 15 f.; 7 times besides in P.; Heb. iii. 6. ς See iii. 16. d Gal. v.9. µικρος, cf. Jas. ili. 5; Mt. xiii. 32. ο Mt. xiii. 33, xvi. 6 ff, and parls. For Φυραμα,
Rom. ix. 21, ΧΙ. 16. f2 bras il. 21; Eph. iv. 22; Col. iii. 9. XXVi, 2, etc.
k x. 20; Acts xiv. 13, 18.
ly, κυρ. τ. κυρ. |. Ἀριστον, D Ambrst.
Deut. xxvi. 13; Judges Vii. 4. ν h Mt. xxvi. 17, and parls.; Acts xii. 3, xx. 6; Lev. ii. 4, etc. i Mt. From LXX (Heb. pesach); in 2 Chron. φασεκ.
6 In like sense, Rom. vi. 6;
πασχα θυω, Mk. xiv. 12; Lk. xxii. 7.
ημων Ίησου Χριστον, ACP, minuscc. 15, syrr. cop., many Ff. Cf. ver. 4, i. 8, and 1 Thess. for Pauline usage,
2 Om. ουν all uncc. but §cCLP; all critical edd.
“with the power” of its Head. Realis- ing that it is clothed therewith, the Cor. Church will deliver the appalling | sen- tence inspired by the absent Ap.—ovv τῇ Suvaper κ.τ.λ. is a h.l.; ἐν Suvaper (ii. 5, etc.) is frequentin P. “Our Lord Jesus’” is Christ the fudge (see i. 8).
“ Delivering to Satan,” in the view of many (including Aug., Cv., Bz., and latterly Hn.), is a synonym for excom- munication,—a thrusting out of the con- demned into “the kingdom of darkness,” where ‘‘the god of this world” holds sway (2 Cor. iv. 4, Eph. ii. 2, vi. 12, Col. i. 13, etc.); similarly in 1 Tim. i. 20. But there is no proof that such a formula of excommunication existed either in the Synagogue or the early Church; and the added words, eis ὄλεθρον τῆς σαρκός κ.τ.λ., point to some physically punttive and spiritually remedial visitation of the sinner. The σὰρξ to be destroyed, it is replied, lies in the man’s sinful passions ; but these would, presumably, be strength- ened rather than destroyed by sending him back to the world. ‘The flesh,” as antithetical to ‘the spirit’ (see parls.), is rather the man’s bodily nature ; and physical maladies, even death, are ascribed in the N.T. to Satan (2 Cor. xii. 7, Luke xiii. 16, John viii. 44, Heb. ii. 14), while on the other hand affliction is made an instrument of spiritual benefit (ix. 27, xi. 30 ff., 2 Cor. iv. 16 f., xii. 7, I Peter iv. t f.); moreover, the App. did occasion- ally, as in the cases of Ananias and Elymas (Acts v., xiii.), pronounce penal sentences in the physical sphere, which took immediate effect on the condemned. It appears certain that P. imposed in this case a severe physical infliction—indeed, if ὄλεθρος is to be pressed (see parls.), a mortal stroke—as the only means of marking the gravity of the crime and Saving the criminal. “Il ne faut pas eo