Ver. 17. Ifthe T-R. be correct, τοῦτο (repeated in 220) points to the instruction about to be given respecting the Lord’s Supper: “Moreover (δέ), in giving you this charge I do not praise (you), seeing that, εἰς. ‘so; Cm. and) ας. ΕΕ Ba. Est., Bg., Hf, Hn., Sm. In vwv. 3 ff. Ρ. rectified an error, now he must censure 2 glaring fault; ‘“‘le ton devient celui du blame positif’’ (Gd.); vv. 3 and 17 both detract, in different degrees, from the “praise” of ver. 2. τοῦτο παραγγέλλων has to wait long for its explanation; P. lingers over his preliminary rehearsal of
16—20.,
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ἐν ὑμῖν εἶναι, ἵνα ὃ
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iii. 20, etc.
vii. 26.
ii. 1; five times (sing.) in Acts.
i. 12. αδοκ., ἴχ. 27. ο See iii. 13. f Jo. xiii. 2,4; Rev. xix. 9, 17; Lk. xiv. 12 ff.
οἱ Ὁ δόκιμοι "φανεροὶ "γένωνται ἐν ὑμῖν. συνερχοµένων οὖν ὑμῶν 3 ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, οὐκ ἔστι 'Κυριακὸν ‘ δεῖπ- u Rom. i. 8, iii. 2; Heb. vii. 2; Jas. iii. 17; without µεν, xii. 28, xv. 46, εἰς,
2 Cor. ix. 1, xi. 4; Rom. ii. 25, iii. 2; Heb. vii. 18, xii. 10; Acts xxviii. 22. y Bibl., h./.; Thuc. iv. 30; Xen., Επ. i. 12, ete.
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a n uv ,,3s,f See vil. 9.
18. ΡΟ BEV ENT. hee Isa.xxili.8. Adv. in 2
Cor. xii. 15; of. vi.
7 above.
t Vv. 33 £., Xiv. 25,26; Acts 1. 6, etc.; Mk. Vv. 33 w See i. 10. x See a Gal. v. 20; 2 Pet.
20.
z See viii. 2.
b 2 Cor. x. 18, xiii. 7; Rom. xiv. 18, xvi. 10; 2 Tim. ii. 15; Jas. * d xiv. 23; with ecu, vii. 5.
5 Κεν. i. 10. See note below.
Ίκρεισσον... ησσον: all pre-Syrian unce.
2 Om. τῃ all uncc. and many minn.
3iva xat(?): BD*, 37, 71, vg. sah., Ambrst.
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the founding of the Lord’s Supper, and the ‘“‘charge”’ is held in suspense; its gist becomes evident in vv. 20f. Neither the feminine indecorum censured in the last § (to which τοῦτο is referred by Mr., Bt., Gd., El., etc.), nor the contentiousness glanced at in ver. 16 (by which Ev. and Ed. explain it), has been, strictly speaking, matter of a charge; moreover, the back- ward ref. of τοῦτο involves the awk- wardness of associating ἐπαινῶ and its introductory ptp. with disconnected ob- jects; these interpretations better fit the other reading. παραγγέλλω . . . ἐπαινῶν. With certain specific and solemn injunc- tions respecting the Eucharist in view, P. says, ‘‘I do not praise (you), in that not for the better but for the worse you come together”’.—@rt, with the like broad sense as in i. 5, ix. 10, gives at once the content and ground of dispraise. The general profitlessness of the Church as- semblies reached its climax in the de- secration of the Lord’s Supper, their hallowing bond (x. 16 f.).
Ver. 18. The severe reproach, els τὸ ἧσσον συνέρχεσθε, is justified by vv. 18-22, which lead round to the intended παραγγελία.-- πρῶτον μὲν requires an ἔπειτα δέ, that is not forthcoming (cf. Rom. i. 8): the complement appears to lie in xii.-xiv.—viz., the abuse of spiritual gifts, a further and prominent ground of disapproval (Mr., Hn., El.). Bt. and Ed. find the antithesis in τὰ λοιπά, ver. 345. Hf. renders πρῶτον “chiefly,” dispens- ing with any complement, but μὲν sup- poses a mental δέ. Ver. 20 gives no contrasted ground of censure, it stands upon the same ground.—ovvepxopévev ὑμῶν ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ (not τῇ ἐκκλ., {η the Church): ‘as often as you come together
So Treg., Lachm.; W.H., Nestle:
in assembly ’’—ptp. pr. of repeated occur- rence ; the σχίσµατα in Church meetings were chronic. For ἀκούω σχίσµατα, see i. 10 f.; the pr. ‘‘I am hearing ”’ suggests (in contrast with ἐδηλώθη above) con- tinued information from various quarters (cf. ν. 1, ἀκούεται): hence the qualifying µέρος τι (acc. of definition) πιστεύω, wanting in ch. i.; P. does not ‘‘believe”’ everything reported to him, but so much as is stated he does credit.—imdpyevv (see parls.) implies not the bare fact, but a characteristic fact, a proprium of this Church—‘‘have their place (are there) amongst you”’: cf. Acts xxviii. 18. Ver. 19. Paul is prepared to believe what he thus hears; these divisions were inevitable: ‘*For indeed parties must needs exist among Υοι”'.---δεῖ affirms a necessity lying in the moral conditions of the case (see note on ὀφείλω, 7).— αἴρεσις (see parls., and note on i. 11; from αἱρέομαι, to choose) is more specific than σχίσμα, implying mental tendency —in philosophy a school, Richtung, then a sect or party formed on a basis of opinion: see Cr.,s.v.; also Trench, Syn. § 4; ‘Heresy is theoretical schism, schism practical heresy’. These words designate, as yet, parties within the Church; in Tit. iii. ro, 2 Peter ii. 1, they verge toward their ecclesiastical use. —Now there is a true purpose of God fulfilled in these unhappy divisions ; they serve to sift the loyal from the disloyal: “in order that also the approved may become manifest among γοι”. These αἴρέσεις are 2 magnet attracting unsound and unsettled minds, and leaving genuine believers to stand out “approved” by their constancy; see 2 Thess. ii. rz {., where the same thought is differently