douter, c’est une condamnation 4a mort que Paul prononce” (Renan); not how- ever a sudden death, rather ‘‘a slow con- sumption, giving the sinner time to re- pent” (Gd.). The ejection of the culprit the Church of itself could and must effect (2, 13); for the aggravated chastisement the presence of the Apostle’s ‘‘spirit,”’ allied ‘‘with the power of the Lord Jesus,” was necessary.—6 Σατανᾶς (Heb. hassatan, Aram. s’tana@: see parls.), ‘the Adversary,” sc. of God and man, to whom every such opportunity is welcome (John viii. 44). That Satan’s malignity should be (as one may say) overreached by God’s wisdom and mercy (cf. iii. το) is nothing very wonderful (see 2 Cor. xil. 7, Luke xxii. 31 f., also the tempta- tion of our Lord, and of Job); hate is proverbially blind. On ‘the day of the Lord,” when the ultimate salvation or perdition of each is fixed, see i. 8, Rom. ii. 5-16. That some Cor. afterwards sought proof of Paul’s supernatural power goes to show, not that this sentence proved abortive, but rather that the offender averted it by prompt repentance.
Ver. 6. ‘Your vaunt is not good:” καύχηµα, materics gloriandi (cf. αἰσχρὸν κλέος, Eurip., Helena, 135: Mr.), found in the state of the Church, of which the Cor. were proud (iv. 6 ff.) when they ought to have been ashamed.—xaddéy, good in the sense of seemly, of fine quality ; cf. 2 Cor. vill. 21, John x. 32, etc. For οὐκ οἴδατε ... 3 See ili. 16. —The Cor. might reply that the offence, however shameful, was the sin of ong man and therefore a little thing; P. re- torts, that it is ‘‘a little Jeaven,” enough to “leaven the whole kneading’”’: cf. the Parables of Matt. xiii. 33 and Luke xii. 1. A sin so virulent held an indefinite power of corruption; it tainted the en- tire community. The φύραμα (Φυράω,
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