and by the use of molles in Latin. For ἀρσενοκοῖται (cl. παιδερασταί), whose sin of Sodom was widely and shame- lessly practised by the Greeks; cf. Rom.. i. 24 ff., written from Cor. The three detached classes appended by ov to the οὔτε list were specified in v. 11; see notes.
Ver. 11. καὶ ταῦτά tives Are: “And these things you were, some (of you)”. The neuter ταῦτα is contemptuous— “such abominations!” πτινὲς softens the aspersion; the majority of Cor. Christians had not been guilty of extreme vice. The stress lies on the tense of Are ; “you were’’—a thing of the past, cf. Rom. vi. το, Eph. ii. rz f.—‘ But you washed yourselves! but you were sanc- tified; but you were justified !’’—ahda thrice repeated, with joyful emphasis, as in 2 Cor. ii. 17, vii. 11. The first of the three vbs. is mid., the other two pass. in voice. ἀπελούσασθε refers to baptism (cf. Acts xxii. 16, Col. ii. rz f., Eph. v. 26) f901) Pet)’ itiniens(see! 1.\:13 foreits signal importance), in its spiritual mean- ing; the form of the vb. calls attention to the initiative of the Cor. in getting rid, at the call of God, of the filth of their old life; in baptism their penitent faith took deliberate and formal expression, with this effect. But behind their action in submitting to baptism, there was the action of God, operating to the effect described by the terms ἡγιάσθητε, ἐδι- καίωθητε. These twin conceptions of the Christian state in its beginning appear commonly in the reverse order (see 1. 30, Rom. vi. 19, etc.); in Rom. ν.,
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