Teks -- 1 Corinthians 5:2 (NET)

5:2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

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Robertson: 1Co 5:2 - And ye are puffed up

And ye are puffed up ( kai humeis pephusiōmenoi este ).

Emphatic position of humeis (you). It may be understood as a question. Perfect passive periphrastic indicative of the same verb phusioō used already of the partisans in Corinth (1Co 4:6, 1Co 4:19, 1Co 4:20). Those of the same faction with this scoundrel justified his rascality.

Robertson: 1Co 5:2 - Did not rather mourn

Did not rather mourn ( kai ouchi mallon epenthēsate ).

Possibly question also and note strong negative form ouchi , which favours it. The very least that they could have done (mallon rather than be puffed up) was to mourn for shame (pentheō , old verb for lamentation) as if for one dead.

Robertson: 1Co 5:2 - That he might be taken away

That he might be taken away ( hina arthēi ).

The sub-final use of hina of desired result (1Co 1:15) so common in the Koiné. First aorist passive subjunctive of airō , to lift up, to carry off. Decent self-respect should have compelled the instant expulsion of the man instead of pride in his rascality.

Wesley: 1Co 5:2 - 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?

JFB: 1Co 5:2 - puffed up

With your own wisdom and knowledge, and the eloquence of your favorite teachers: at a time when ye ought to be "mourning" at the scandal caused to religion by the incest. Paul mourned because they did not mourn (2Co 2:4). We ought to mourn over the transgressions of others, and repent of our own (2Co 12:21) [BENGEL].

JFB: 1Co 5:2 - that

Ye have not felt such mourning as would lead to the result that, &c.

JFB: 1Co 5:2 - taken away from among you

By excommunication. The incestuous person was hereby brought to bitter repentance, in the interval between the sending of the first and second Epistles (2Co 2:5-10). Excommunication in the Christian Church corresponded to that in the Jewish synagogue, in there being a lighter and heavier form: the latter an utter separation from church fellowship and the Lord's house, the former exclusion from the Lord's Supper only but not from the Church.

Clarke: 1Co 5:2 - Ye are puffed up

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 greatness of this crime, ye would have rather mourned, and have put away this flagrant transgressor from among you

Clarke: 1Co 5:2 - Taken away from among you

Taken away from among you - Ἱνα εξαρθη εκ μεσου υμων . This is supposed by some to refer to the punishment of death, by others to excommunication. The Christian Church was at this time too young to have those forms of excommunication which were practised in succeeding centuries. Probably no more is meant than a simple disowning of the person, accompanied with the refusal to admit him to the sacred ordinances, or to have any intercourse or connection with him.

Calvin: 1Co 5:2 - And ye are puffed up // That he might be taken away from among you

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 of glorying, inasmuch as mankind have nothing of their own, and it is only through the grace of God that they possess any excellence. (1Co 4:7.) Now, however, he attacks them from another quarter. “You are,” says he, “covered with disgrace: what ground have you, then, for pride or haughtiness? For there is an amazing blindness in glorying in the midst of disgrace, in spite, as it were of angels and men.”

When he says, and have not rather mourned, he argues by way of contrast; for where there is grief there is no more glorying. It may be asked: “Why ought they to have mourned over another man’s sin?” I answer, for two reasons: first, in consequence of the communion that exists among the members of the Church, it was becoming that all should feel hurt at so deadly a fall on the part of one of their number; and secondly, when such an enormity is perpetrated in a particular Church, the perpetrator of it is all offender in such a way, that the whole society is in a manner polluted. For as God humbles the father of a family in the disgrace of his wife, or of his children, and a whole kindred in the disgrace of one of their number, so every Church ought to consider, that it contracts a stain of disgrace whenever any base crime is perpetrated in it. Nay, farther, we see how the anger of God was kindled against the whole nation of Israel on account of the sacrilege of one individual — Achan. (Jos 7:1.) It was not as though God had been so cruel as to take vengeance on the innocent for another man’s crime; but, as in every instance in which anything of this nature has occurred among a people, there is already some token of his anger, so by correcting a community for the fault of one individual, he distinctly intimates that the whole body is infected and polluted with the contagion of the offense. Hence we readily infer, that it is the duty of every Church to mourn over the faults of individual members, as domestic calamities belonging to the entire body. And assuredly a pious and dutiful correction takes its rise in our being inflamed with holy zeal through displeasure at the offense; for otherwise severity will be felt to be bitter. ²⁷¹

That he might be taken away from among you He now brings out more distinctly what he finds fault with in the Corinthians — remissness, inasmuch as they connived at such an abomination. Hence, too, it appears that Churches are furnished with this power ²⁷² — that, whatever fault there is within them, they can correct or remove it by strictness of discipline, and that those are inexcusable that are not on the alert to have filth cleared away. For Paul here condemns the Corinthians. Why? Because they had been remiss in the punishment of one individual. Now he would have accused them unjustly, if they had not had this power. Hence the power of excommunication is established from this passage. On the other hand, as Churches have this mode of punishment put into their hands, those commit sin, ²⁷³ as Paul shows here, that do not make use of it, when it is required; for otherwise he would act unfairly to the Corinthians in charging them with this fault.

TSK: 1Co 5:2 - ye are // mourned // might

ye are : 1Co 5:6, 1Co 4:6-8, 1Co 4:18

mourned : Num 25:6; 2Ki 22:19; Ezr 9:2-6, Ezr 10:1-6; Psa 119:136; Jer 13:17; Eze 9:4, Eze 9:6; 2Co 7:7, 2Co 7:9-11, 2Co 12:21

might : 1Co 5:5, 1Co 5:7, 1Co 5:13; Rev 2:20-22

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Poole: 1Co 5:2 - And ye are puffed up // And have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you

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 interest of the church, that you have not been able to find leisure to deal with this scandalous person, as a church of Christ ought to have done. This seemeth rather the reason of their not mourning, than any rejoicing in iniquity, as if they had thought the gospel had opened that door against this licentiousness which the law had shut, or triumphed in this incestuous person, being one of their teachers (which can hardly be thought).

And have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you: they ought rather to have mourned, keeping times of fasting and prayer, on the behalf of this scandalous member amongst them, that his sin might (upon his due sense of it, and repentance for it) have been forgiven him, and the blot upon their church, by their having such a one in their fellowship, might be washed out, by his being cast out of their fellowship and communion. It was no time for them to glory in their gifts, and be puffed up with the parts of their teachers or members, when they had such a blot upon them by a putrid member that was amongst them. They had a great deal more cause for humiliation, than for pride and glorying.

Haydock: 1Co 5:2 - You are puffed up

You are puffed up, seem to be unconcerned, to take pride in it, instead of having the man separated from you. (Witham)

Gill: 1Co 5:2 - And ye are puffed up // and have not rather mourned // that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you

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 guilty of so foul a crime, yet they still applauded him, and cried him up for a wonderful preacher: or one party was puffed up against another; that which was opposite to the party this man belonged to, boasting over the other as free from the scandal that was exposed unto; or the other were puffed up with their lenity and forbearance, boasting of it as an act of humanity and good nature, and an instance of charity, showing that they were not severe upon one another, for mistakes in life: or else were puffed up and gloried in the thing itself, as an instance of Christian liberty, and their freedom from the law, through a sad mistake of it; and in which they might be strengthened by a notion of the Jews, that it was lawful for proselyted Gentiles to do such things, for so says Maimonides ^b.

"The sentence of the law is, that it is free for a Gentile שישא אמו, "to marry his mother", or his sister that are made proselytes; but the wise men forbid this thing, that they may not say we are come from a holiness that is heavy, to one that is light.''

But this writer concludes that a proselyte might marry his father's brother's wife, and his father's wife; and so says his commentator ^c, and observes, that it was the opinion of R. Akiba, which Rabbi was contemporary with the Apostle Paul: so that this notion prevailed in his days, and does in some measure account for the commission of such a sin by a church member, and the church's negligence about it:

and have not rather mourned; not only personally, and separately, but as a body; they ought to have met together as a church, and humbled themselves before God for this scandalous iniquity done in the midst of them, and pray unto him,

that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you; not by excommunication, for that they could and ought to have done themselves; but by the immediate hand of God, inflicting some visible punishment, and taking him away by an untimely death, which the Jews call כרית, "cutting off", by the hand of God; and such a punishment, they say, this crime deserved; according to them, there were six and thirty cuttings off in the law, or so many things which deserved death by the hand of God; and the two first that are mentioned are these, he that lies with his mother or with his father's wife ^d.