Teks -- 1 Corinthians 5:6 (NET)

5:6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast affects the whole batch of dough?

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Robertson: 1Co 5:6 - Not good

Not good ( ou kalon ).

Not beautiful, not seemly, in view of this plague spot, this cancer on the church. They needed a surgical operation at once instead of boasting and pride (puffed up). Kauchēma is the thing gloried in.

Robertson: 1Co 5:6 - A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ( mikra zumē holon to phurama zumoi ).

This proverb occurs verbatim in Gal 5:9. Zumē (leaven) is a late word from zeō , to boil, as is zumoō , to leaven. The contraction is regular (̇oeîoi ) for the third person singular present indicative. See the parables of Jesus for the pervasive power of leaven (Mat 13:33). Some of the members may have argued that one such case did not affect the church as a whole, a specious excuse for negligence that Paul here answers. The emphasis is on the "little"(mikra , note position). Lump (phurama from phuraō , to mix, late word, in the papyri mixing a medical prescription) is a substance mixed with water and kneaded like dough. Compare the pervasive power of germs of disease in the body as they spread through the body.

Vincent: 1Co 5:6 - Glorying

Glorying ( καῦχημα )

Not the act , but the subject of boasting; namely, the condition of the Corinthian church.

Vincent: 1Co 5:6 - Lump

Lump ( φύραμα )

See on Rom 12:21. A significant term, suggesting the oneness of the Church, and the consequent danger from evil-doers.

Wesley: 1Co 5:6 - Your glorying

Either in your gifts or prosperity, at such a time as this, is not good.

Wesley: 1Co 5:6 - Know ye not that a little leaven

One sin, or one sinner.

Wesley: 1Co 5:6 - Leaveneth the whole lump

Diffuses guilt and infection through the whole congregation.

JFB: 1Co 5:6

Your glorying in your own attainments and those of your favorite teachers (1Co 3:21; 1Co 4:19; 1Co 5:2), while all the while ye connive at such a scandal, is quite unseemly.

JFB: 1Co 5:6 - a little leaven leaveth . . . whole lump

(Gal 5:9), namely, with present complicity in the guilt, and the danger of future contagion (1Co 15:33; 2Ti 2:17).

Clarke: 1Co 5:6 - Your glorying is not good

Your glorying is not good - You are triumphing in your superior knowledge, and busily employed in setting up and supporting your respective teachers, while the Church is left under the most scandalous corruptions - corruptions which threaten its very existence if not purged away

Clarke: 1Co 5:6 - Know ye not

Know ye not - With all your boasted wisdom, do you not know and acknowledge the truth of a common maxim, a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? If this leaven - the incestuous person, be permitted to remain among you; if his conduct be not exposed by the most formidable censure; the flood-gates of impurity will be opened on the Church, and the whole state of Christianity ruined in Corinth.

Calvin: 1Co 5:6 - Your glorying is not good // Know ye not

6.Your glorying is not good. He condemns their glorying, not simply because they extolled themselves beyond what is lawful for man, but because they delighted themselves in their faults. He had previously stripped mankind of all glory; for he had shown that, as they have nothing of their own, whatever excellence they may have, they owe the entire praise of it to God alone. (1Co 4:7.) What he treats of here, however, is not that, God is defrauded of his right, when mortals arrogate to themselves the praise of their excellences, but that the Corinthians are guilty of arrant folly in extolling themselves without any just ground. For they proudly gloried as if everything had been in a golden style among them, while in the meantime there was so much among them that was wicked and disgraceful.

Know ye not That they might not think that it was a matter of little or no importance that they gave encouragement to so great an evil, he shows the destructive tendency of indulgence and dissimulation in such a case. He makes use of a proverbial saying, by which he intimates that a whole multitude is infected by the contagion of a single individual. For this proverb has in this passage ²⁸⁶ the same meaning as in those expressions of Juvenal: “A whole herd of swine falls down in the fields through disease in one of their number, and one discolored grape infects another.” ²⁸⁷ I have said in this passage, because Paul, as we shall see, makes use of it elsewhere (Gal 5:9) in another sense.

TSK: 1Co 5:6 - glorying // a little

glorying : 1Co 5:2, 1Co 3:21, 1Co 4:18, 1Co 4:19; Jam 4:16

a little : 1Co 15:33; Mat 13:33, Mat 16:6-12; Luk 13:21; Gal 5:9; 2Ti 2:17

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Poole: 1Co 5:6 - your glorying is not good // a little leaven

You boast and glory because you have men of parts amongst you, persons whom the world count wise;

your glorying is not good what do you glory for, when you have such a scandalous person amongst you, and take no care to cast him out? Can you be ignorant, that as

a little leaven taken into the midst of the meal, and there kept, presently soureth the whole mass, and leaveneth the whole lump; so one notorious, scandalous sinner detained in the bosom of a church, casts a blot upon the whole church?

Haydock: 1Co 5:6-8 - Your glorying is not good // Purge out the old leaven

Your glorying is not good, when you suffer such a scandal among you: you have little reason to boast of your masters, or even of the gifts and graces you received. A little leaven corrupteth the whole mass; a public scandal, when not punished, is of dangerous consequence. ---

Purge out the old leaven. He alludes to the precept given to the Jews of having no leaven in their houses during the seven days of the Paschal feast. For our Pasch, i.e. Paschal lamb, Christ is sacrificed: and Christians, says St. John Chrysostom, must keep this feast continually, by always abstaining from the leaven of sin. (Witham)

Gill: 1Co 5:6 - Your glorying is not good // know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump

Your glorying is not good,.... Their glorying in their outward flourishing condition, in their riches and wealth, and in their ministers, in their wisdom and parts when under such an humbling dispensation; and especially if their glorying was in the sin itself, and their connivance at it, it was far from being good, it was very criminal, as the consequence of it was dangerous:

know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? This, in nature, is what everybody knows; and the proverb, which is much used by the Jews ^f, was common in the mouths of all, and the meaning of it easy to be understood: thus, whether applied to the leaven of false doctrine, nothing is more manifest, than when this is let alone, and a stop is not put to it, it increases to more ungodliness; or to vice and immorality, as here; which if not taken notice of by a church, is not faithfully reproved and severely censured, as the case requires, will endanger the whole community; it may spread by example, and, under the connivance of the church, to the corrupting of good manners, and infecting of many.