riates the person of another (16), it is a self-violation. Hence transgressions of the Seventh Commandment are “sins of the flesh’”’ and “of the passions” par éminence. They engage and debauch the whole person; they ‘‘enter into the
See W.H., Notes on Selected Readings, p. 114.
heart,” for “they proceed out of the heart”’ and touch the springs of being; in the highest degree they ‘defile the man” (Mark vii. 20 ff.). That inchastity is extreme dishonour is realised in the one sex; Christianity makes it equally so in the other.
Vv. το, 20. What a deadly sin, an act of high treason, this is for the Christian, Paul’s final appeal shows: “Or (if you do not yet realise the heinousness of fornication), do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have (οὗ ἔχετε, gen. by attraction to Πνεύματος) from God?” The Holy Spirit dwells in the readers: how but in their body, since they are in the body ? (11. 16, cf. Rom. viii. 11; also John ii. 21): there is the same tacit inference from whole to part as in ver. 15; the same assumption that the body is essential to the man, which underlies the doctrine of the Resurrection (xv.). The Christian estimate of πορνεία is thus categorically opposed to the heathen estimate. In the temple of Aphrodité prostitutes were priestesses, and com- merce with them was counted a conse- cration ; it is an absolute desecration of God’s true temple in the man himself.— “And (that) you are not your own?” This too P. asks his readers if they ‘do not know?’ The possessor is God, who has occupied them by His Spirit, having first purchased them with His Son’s blood: cf. i. 30, iii. 23; Rom. viii. 32, 2 Cor. v. 18 Π., Acts xx. 28. ‘For you were bought at a price!”—the τυμὴ
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