Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
Judge angels. We who are now "a spectacle to angels" shall then, by Christ in us, "judge (bad) angels." What Christ is and does, the Church is and does (; , end). The saints shall join in pronouncing the sentence of the Judge (; ). Believers shall, as administrators of the kingdom under Jesus, put down all rule hostile to God.
Verse 1 Corinthians 6:3. _KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?_] Dr. Lightfoot observes that "the apostle does not say here, as he said before, the _saints_ shall judge the angels, but WE shall ju...
SHALL JUDGE ANGELS - All the angels that shall be judged, good or bad. Probably the reference is to fallen angels, as there is no account that holy angels will then undergo a trial. The sense is, “Chr...
CHAPTER 6 __ 1. Concerning Disputes before Heathen Courts. (1 Corinthians 6:1). 2. The Holiness of Believers; Their Bodies the Temples of the Holy Spirit. (1 Corinthians 6:8). Instead of settling t...
THE SCANDAL OF CHRISTIANS SUING EACH OTHER BEFORE HEATHEN TRIBUNALS. Paul has prepared for his next rebuke by his reference to the function of the church to judge its own members. But alas, Christians...
When any of you has a ground of complaint against his fellow, does he dare to go to law before unrighteous men, and not before God's dedicated people? Are you not aware that God's dedicated people wil...
THE FOLLY OF THE LAW COURTS (1 Corinthians 6:1-8)...
HOW MUCH MORE. Greek. _meti ge_. Frequently used with. negative question, as. strong remonstrance. See Matthew 26:22. Joh 18:35.Acts 10:47. THINGS, &C. Greek. _biotikos._ Only here, 1 Corinthians 6:4
_Know ye not that we shall judge angels?_ Cf. 2 Peter 2:4, and Judges 6. Some have thought that _good_angels are here meant. But it is difficult to see how (1) men could pronounce sentence upon their...
THE WAY TO SETTLE DISPUTES IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH The principle is here laid down which is to guide Christians in their lawsuits. Disputes about property are treated by the Apostle as matters of the...
ἈΓΓΈΛΟΥΣ ΚΡΙΝΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ. Cf. 2 Peter 2:4, and Jude 1:6. Some have thought that _good_ angels are here meant. But it is difficult to see how (1) men could pronounce sentence upon their conduct openly, or ...
_ LEGAL PROBLEMS AT CORINTH 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1-6:_ The Christians at Corinth not only were dealing with the problem of division and incest there were also legal problems. The brethren had legal matters...
ΟΎΚ (G3756) отр. вводит вопрос, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΚΡΙΝΟΎΜΕΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ (G2919) судить. ΜΉΤΙΓΕ (G3386) не говоря уже (BD, 220). ΒΙΟΤΙΚΌΣ (G982) принадлежащее...
KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?— "Even the fallen angels themselves, who, notwithstanding all their malignity and pride, shall be brought to that tribunal, at which you, having gloriously pass...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Going to Court Before Pagan Judges_ (1-11) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 6:1-11. Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Defrauders Are Not Brothers (1 Corinthians 6:1-8) 6 When one of you has a grievance against a brother, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the the sa...
1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
_(C) 6:1-11. CHRISTIANS AND LITIGATION_ St. Paul reproves the Corinthians for referring their disputes about ordinary affairs to heathen judges. The subject was suggested by rumours he had heard; and...
PARAPHRASE. 'How is it that when you quarrel with one another you go before heathen judges and do not let some of the brethren decide your matter? (2) You spoke of the saints judging the world, why no...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 6 CHRISTIANS AND THE LAW COURTS 6:1-8 V1 Suppose that one of you has a reason to complain against another Christian. You may take your pro...
WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS. — Many conjectures have been made as to the exact significance of the word “angels” here. Some suggest that it must signify bad angels; but this would be an unusual use of the w...
CHAPTER 9 ON GOING TO LAW ST. PAUL here gives his judgment on the litigiousness of the Corinthians. The Greeks, in general, were fond of going to law. They were not only quarrelsome, but they seemed...
§ 17. LAW-SUITS IN HEATHEN COURTS. Beside the πόρνος, amongst those to be excommunicated at Cor [887], stood the πλεονέκτης (1 Corinthians 5:11); fraud and robbery were only less rife than licentiousn...
The question of 1 Corinthians 6:2 urged to its climax: “Know you not that we shall judge _angels?_ ” Paul already does this, hypothetically, in Galatians 1:8. _Instructed_ through the Church (Ephesian...
SETTLING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRETHREN 1 Corinthians 6:1 The Apostle was clearly of the opinion that it was wiser for a Christian to bear injustice and wrong than to go to law before a heathen tribuna...
The apostle now passed to another dereliction. Disputes in the church were being submitted to heathen tribunals. What these matters were we are not told. The teaching of the apostle is clear, and has...
Judging Matters Between Brethren Jesus instructed his followers to go to the brother who sinned against them and tell him privately in the hope he would be restored. "But if he will not hear you, take...
_Judge angels? That is, the wicked angels, the devils. (St. Thomas Aquinas)_...
VV. 3 does not present a new argument; it is the previous one raised to its culminating point. For the angels also, according to Paul, form part of the κόσμος, the _world_ (see on 1 Corinthians 4:9)....
“Or do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? 3. Know ye not that we shall judge angels? much more t...
III. LAWSUITS. 6:1-11 The subject of discipline, though connected with the domain of ecclesiastical life, trenched on the sphere of moral questions. We come now to the subjects which belong exclusive...
(1) Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? (2) Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
3._Know ye not that we shall judge angels _? This passage is taken in different ways. Chrysostom states that some understood it as referring to priests, (325) but this is exceedingly far-fetched. Othe...
1 Corinthians 6:1-11 treats the subject of wrongs. It was shameful that those who were to judge the world and the angels should be incapable of judging the paltry affairs of this world. Let the least...
KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS,.... Meaning not the ministers of the Gospel, and pastors of churches, called "angels", Revelation 1:20 whose doctrines are examined, tried, and judged by the sa...
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? Ver. 3. _Things that pertain to this, &c._] That serve to and satisfy the body only, being _nec vera, nec vestr...
The apostle, having mentioned one very great irregularity among the professors of Christianity at Corinth, proceeds now to animadvert upon another, namely, their entering into suits of law with each o...
KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS? HOW MUCH MORE THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE!...
GOING TO LAW WITH BRETHREN. The charge:...
In this chapter there is another matter raised in which the Corinthians had not been using proper judgment. No individual is singled out here, but the strong reproof of the apostle is for any who had...
KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS? HOW MUCH MORE, THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE? 'Know ye not' -How often does Paul, present this phrase to. congregation that claimed to know it all! (1 Cori...
1-8 Christians should not contend with one another, for they are brethren. This, if duly attended to, would prevent many law-suits, and end many quarrels and disputes. In matters of great damage to o...
That the saints shall judge angels, is here so plainly asserted, as a thing within their knowledge, that none can doubt it; but how, or when, or what angels, is not so easily determined. The best inte...
Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life? [They were permitting themselves to be judged by those whom they were appointed to judge. To prove that the sai...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book II who is destined to be the judge of angels,[135] Tertullian On Repentance in man have been overthrown, so many marks of the condemnation which formerly was his own...
1 Corinthians 6:3 not G3756 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 judge G2919 (G5692) angels G32 more G3386...
CHRISTIANS ARE NOT TO GO TO COURT AGAINST THEIR FELLOW-CHRISTIANS (6:1-9A). The idea that the church judges internal matters like sin leads on to the idea that the church can also act as judge in disp...
‘Or do you not know that God's people (‘the saints') will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge in the smallest matters? Do you not know that we will judge ange...
This topic seems to have been suggested by the closing verses of the preceding chapter, about Christians having nothing to do with judging “them that are without.” ‘Yes (says the apostle), but what is...
1 Corinthians 6:3. KNOW YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS? The word “angels” usually means the good ones, but here it is clearly the bad. HOW MUCH MORE, THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE?...
HOW MUCH MORE, THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO THIS LIFE? (Μητ γε βιωτικα;). The question expects the answer no and γε adds sharp point to Paul's surprised tone, "Need I so much as say?" It can be understoo...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
1 Corinthians 6:2 I. The Apostle seems to refer to something in the Christian doctrine which was well known then, but certainly it is very obscure now. We always look forward to being judged, not to j...
1. _Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?_ In those days, the courts of law were utterly unjust. It was all a matter of who could b...
CONTENTS: Saints forbidden to go to law with each other. Sanctity of the body. The body the Lord's temple. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit. CONCLUSION: Contention of Christians before the law i...
1 Corinthians 6:1. _Dare any of you go to law before the unjust?_ He whose cause is just appeals to equity, but he who does his neighbour wrong is vexatious. In England, our judges, after the cause is...
WE SHALL JUDGE THE ANGELS? _Godet_ writes: "Paul does not wish to mark out this or that class of angels, but to awaken in the Church the sense of its competence and dignity by reminding it that beings...
_Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust?_ ON GOING TO LAW The Greeks were not only quarrelsome, but derived an excitement pleasant to their frivolous nature in...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 6:2 SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE WORLD.... ANGELS. See Daniel 7:22;...
CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle passes on to the subject of lawsuits and trials, and reproves the Corinthians for instituting proceedings before the heathen judges, and he declares...
_Know ye not that we shall judge angels?_ Some think that _angels_ here means priests, and they refer to Malachi 2:7, "For he is the angel of the Lord of hosts," spoken of the priest. But this is fore...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Two SECTIONS; Two TOPICS.— 1 Corinthians 6:1 1 Corinthians 6:1.—Canon Evans (_Speaker’s Commentary_) thus exhibits the verbal connection: “Deigneth any one of you (_you_ emphatic), h...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 _Litigation before heathen courts forbidden._ 1 CORINTHIANS 6:1 DARE ANY OF YOU? rather, _Dare any one of you? _It is in St. Paul's view an _audacious _defiance of
Now Paul brings up another issue, and that was the taking of a brother before the pagan courts. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saint...
1 Corinthians 6:4; 2 Peter 2:4; 2 Timothy 2:4; 2 Timothy 4:10; Jude 1:6
How much more [μ η τ ι γ ε]. It is hard to render the word accurately. How much more follows the Vulgate quanto magis. It is rather, not to speak of; or to say nothing at all of. Things that pertain...
THE INDWELLING HOLY SPIRIT 1 Corinthians 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The studies in the Epistle to the Corinthians are not written to be shelved, but to be carefully studied, and followed, lest we fall,...
How will the saints judge the world and angels? PROBLEM: The Bible asserts that God is the judge of the world (Psalms 96:13; Acts 17:31; Revelation 20:11-15), including evil angels ...