Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 5:2
(2) And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
(2) There are none more proud than they that least know themselves.
(2) And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
(2) There are none more proud than they that least know themselves.
1 CORINTHIANS 5:2 pra,xaj The Textus Receptus, following î46 B D F G L P Y 049 056 0142 and most minuscules, reads poih,saj, whereas pra,xaj is read by î11vid...
Verse 1 Corinthians 5:2. _YE ARE PUFFED UP_] Ye are full of strife and contention relative to your parties and favourite teachers, and neglect the discipline of the Church. Had you considered the grea...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP - See the note at 1 Corinthians 4:18. You are filled with pride, and with a vain conceit of your own wisdom and purity, notwithstanding the existence of this enormous wickedness i...
3. CORINTHIAN FAILURES. CHAPTER S 5-6. CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The Tolerated Case of Gross Immorality. (1 Corinthians 5:1)._ 2. The Call to Separation. (1 Corinthians 5:6). The spiritual declension, the car...
1 CORINTHIANS 5. THE CASE OF INCEST. Paul now passes from the parties to a case of immorality exceptionally hideous and, so far as his knowledge goes, unprecedented even among the heathen. It is every...
It is actually reported that there is unchastity among you, and unchastity so monstrous that it does not even exist among the heathen, unchastity the consequence of which is that a certain man has for...
SIN AND COMPLACENCY (1 Corinthians 5:1-8)...
ARE. have been. PUFFED UP. Greek. _phusioo._ See 1 Corinthians 4:6. HAVE, &C. = did not rather mourn. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina_. HATH DONE. did. TAKEN AWAY. Greek. _exairo._ Only here and...
_And ye are_(lit. HAVE BEEN) _puffed up, and have not rather mourned Puffed up_. Vulgate, _inflati_. Tyndale, _ye swell_. Wiclif, _are bolnun_, i.e. swollen with pride. It sheds a terrible light upon...
THE CASE OF THE INCESTUOUS PERSON....
ὙΜΕΙ͂Σ ΠΕΦΥΣΙΩΜΈΝΟΙ ἘΣΤΈ. YE HAVE BEEN PUFFED UP. The ὑμεῖς has an emphasis. ‘_Ye_, who have been so far from the enlightenment of the true Christian as to condone an offence like this, are actually f...
_ THE NEED FOR CHURCH DISCIPLINE 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1-2:_ There was a terrible sin that was destroying the church at Corinth. Paul said, "It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and...
ΠΕΦΥΣΙΩΜΈΝΟΙ _perf. pass. part._ от ΦΥΣΙΌΩ (G5448) надуваться, раздуваться, пыжиться; этот термин обозначает гордость, высокомерие и наглость (LN, 1:765). Part, либо является частью praed. _adj._, либ...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP, &C.— _And yet ye are elated, instead of mourning, as ye ought to do, in order to the expulsion of him who hath committed this._ At that timethechurchusedpublichumiliations, with...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Atrocious Sin (1 Corinthians 5:1-2) 5 It is actually reported that there is immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among pagans; for a man is living...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Matter of Moral Discipline_ (1-8) _Text_ 1 Corinthians 5:1-8. It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gen...
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. PUFFED UP - with your own wisdom and the eloquence of your favourite teachers...
8 The sharp contrast between the carnal Corinthians and the faithful apostle loses none of its force if we compare him with the church of today. We need not go outside of Protestantism to find churche...
PUFFED UP] This is probably to be taken generally as referring to their boastfulness about their spiritual privileges and attainments: cp. 1 Corinthians 4:6. The Apostle expresses surprise that the sc...
_(B) 5:1-13. THE CASE OF IMMORALITY_ The Apostle had written (1 Corinthians 4:21) of coming to exercise authority. Here was a case in which it was needed. A man had created a scandal by marrying his s...
PARAPHRASE. 'A rumour has reached me that unchastity exists among you, and that one of your number has taken his stepmother as his wife, an act which the very heathen abhor. (2) How can you maintain y...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 5 THE PROBLEM OF A SERIOUS *SEXUAL *SIN 5:1-5 V1 News has come to me that there is *sexual *sin among you. A man has been having sex with...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP. — Better, _And are ye puffed up?_ &c. We have instances of similar sentences beginning with “and,” Luke 10:29. The Apostle cannot mean that they actually gloried in this act of s...
CHAPTER 8 EXCOMMUNICATION; OR, PURGING OUT THE OLD LEAVEN FROM the subject of the factions in the Corinthian Church, which has so long detained Paul, he now passes to the second division of his Epist...
§ 15. THE CASE OF INCEST. About the party-strifes at Cor [801] P. has been informed by the members of a particular family (1 Corinthians 1:11); the monstrous case of incest, to which he turns abruptly...
What are the Cor [805] doing under this deep disgrace? _Not even grieving_. Καὶ ὑμεῖς πεφυσιωμένοι ἐστέ; κ. τ. λ.: “And are you (still) puffed up? and did you not rather mourn?” For the grammatical fo...
REMOVING GERMS OF EVIL 1 Corinthians 5:1 The sin referred to in this chapter has been condoned by the Corinthian church, and this proved that the prevalent standard of morals was low. A man had marri...
The apostle now passed to derelictions. The first was lack of discipline. A case of immorality had brought no sense of shame to the church, and no action had been taken. The woman was called to immedi...
Tolerating Sin in the Church Fornication was a part of the worship of Aphrodite. A thousand priestesses of the goddess served as prostitutes who were available for the free use of temple visitors. Yet...
_You are puffed up, seem to be unconcerned, to take pride in it, instead of having the man separated from you. (Witham)_...
“And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. ” Even this fact has not sufficed to disturb the proud self-satisfaction which...
(1) It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife. (2) And ye are puffed up, a...
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...
2._And ye are puffed up _“_Are _ye not ashamed,” says he, “to glory in what affords so much occasion for humiliation?” He had observed previously, that even the highest excellence gives no just ground...
He begins to treat the details of conduct and of discipline; and, first of all, the carnal defilement carried on in their midst to the last degree of hardness of conscience. Those who sought their own...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP,.... Either with the gifts, learning, and eloquence of their preachers, and particularly of this man, who, by some, is thought to be one of their teachers; and though he was guilt...
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. Ver. 2. _And ye are puffed up_] And yet ye are puffed up (so Piscator reads it)...
_It is_, &c. As if he had said, I have spoken of coming to you with a rod of correction, and it is too probable I maybe laid under a necessity of using it, though it be an unwilling necessity: for _it...
PUFFED UP; by their supposed excellence....
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP, AND HAVE NOT RATHER MOURNED, THAT HE THAT HATH DONE THIS DEED MIGHT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM AMONG YOU. The apostle here opens a new section of his letter, in which he treats of some q...
THE NECESSITY OF CHURCH DISCIPLINE. A case of incest:...
The emphasis on human wisdom in Corinth was sadly accompanied by a case of revolting moral corruption. Philosophy is far removed from spiritual power, very commonly. Paul speaks here of a case well kn...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP, AND DID NOT RATHER MOURN, THAT HE THAT HAD DONE THIS DEED MIGHT BE TAKEN AWAY FROM AMONG YOU. 'puffed up' -'you have become arrogant' (NASV); 'And you can still be proud of you...
1-8 The apostle notices a flagrant abuse, winked at by the Corinthians. Party spirit, and a false notion of Christian liberty, seem to have saved the offender from censure. Grievous indeed is it that...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP; you are so conceited of your own parts and gifts, and are so full of your contentions about the preference of ministers, and things of little concernment to your souls and the in...
And ye are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he that had done this deed might be taken away from among you. [Our last section shows in what manner they had been puffed up. Had they been mourni...
Tertullian On Modesty [130]...
1 Corinthians 5:2 And G2532 you G5210 are G2075 (G5748) up G5448 (G5772) and G2532 have G3996 not...
THE CORINTHIANS MUST DEAL WITH THE IMMORALITY IN THEIR MIDST (5:1-13). The Great Sin Among Them (5:1-2) ‘It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not e...
IMPORTANT SCANDALS THAT HAVE TO BE DEALT WITH (5:1-6:20). Having dealt with the central spiritual concern which has been to do with their divisiveness over secondary matters, over ‘the wisdom of words...
1 Corinthians 5:2. AND YE ARE PUFFED UP as if all were right with you AND HAVE NOT RATHER MOURNED that such a blot should come upon your community, (in order) THAT HE THAT HAD DONE THIS DEED MIGHT (by...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP (κα υμεις πεφυσιωμενο εστε). Emphatic position of υμεις (you). It may be understood as a question. Perfect passive periphrastic indicative of the same verb φυσιοω used already o...
AND YE ARE PUFFED UP What contempt this pours upon the divisions among the Corinthians: "Apollonians," and "Paulinians," and "Cephasites," all alike indifferent to this instance of gross sin!...
CONTENTS: Immorality rebuked and discipline enjoined. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Satan. CONCLUSION: The heinous sins of professed Christians are quickly noted and noised abroad to the injury of Chris...
1 Corinthians 5:1. _There is fornication among you._ Πορνεια designates every species of illicit intercourse between the sexes. Our Saxon word _forliggian_ properly expresses fornication, but here adu...
HOW THEN, CAN YOU BE PROUD? This implies the false teacher influenced them to permit this to continue. See note on 1 Corinthians 3:13; and compare Romans 6:1-2. YOU SHOULD BE FILLED WITH SADNESS. Comp...
_It is reported that there is fornication among you._ GROSS SCANDALS 1. May arise within the Church. 2. Occasion grievous reproach. 3. Should be instantly investigated and removed. (_J. Lyth, D. D...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 5:2 ARROGANT. See v. 1 Corinthians 5:6. The arrogance may arise from the Corinthians’ mistaken “knowledge” that they are
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 A Report of Sexual Immorality and Lawsuits. Paul has heard of several problems in Corinth. There is a bizarre case of sexual misconduct ...
CHAPTER V. SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. The Apostle proceeds from the schism of the Corinthians to deal with the scandal caused by incest among them: he blames them for allowing one living openly in i...
_And ye are puffed up._ You meanwhile are so occupied with your contentious pride that you neglect to correct this incestuous person by removing him from your society. So Chrysostom, Theophylact, and...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ THE CASE OF SHAMEFUL SIN (Also in 2 Corinthians 2:5; 2 Corinthians 7:8.) 1 Corinthians 5:1. COMMONLY.—“_Actually_” (; widely accepted). AMONG YOU.—Joi
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 _Excommunication of an incestuous offender._ 1 CORINTHIANS 5:1 IT IS REPORTED. The abruptness with which the subject is introduced shows THE intensity of St. Pa
Let's turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians, chapter 5. The Corinthian letter of Paul was mainly corrective. The Corinthian church had innumerable problems. Those from the house of Chloe had reporte...
1 Corinthians 4:18; 1 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Corinthians 5:13; 1 Corinthians 5:5;...
ADMONITIONS TO A WORLDLY CHURCH 1 Corinthians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. How quickly bad reports fly. The Apostle wrote, "It is reported commonly." Just so. Evil deeds usually travel on the wings of...
Are ye puffed up? Should ye not rather have mourned — Have solemnly humbled yourselves, and at that time of solemn mourning have expelled that notorious sinner from your communion?...
Here note, 1. The fault charged upon the church: they did not censure this offender, therefore the apostle censures them. The tolerating of scandalous sins in particular members of churches, is. thing...