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are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling place. 12, And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we blefs being perfecuted, we fuffer it. 13. Being defamed, we intreat: we are

made as the filth of the world, and are the off fcouring of all things unto this day.

14. I write not these things to fhame you, but as my beloved fons

I warn you.
treat me more like

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15. For though you have ten thousand inftructors in Christ, have ye not many thers for in Chrift Jefus I have begotten you thro' the gospel.

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16. Wherefore I

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endure Hardships and Reproaches A. D. 57. of every Kind.

12 & 13. I maintain myself by my own Labour. When I am reviled, I blefs thofe that revile me; when perfecuted, I bear it patiently. When I am defamed and flandered, I only intreat People to have a more charitable Opinion of me; and by fome I am treated as no better than the moft vile and impure Thing that can be.

14. Now, I do not mention this ill Ufage of yours fo much to fhame and vex you, as to draw and perfuade you like Children, to spiritual Father for the future.

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15. And furely I may claim a juft Refpect from the Generality you Corinthian Chriftians. For you ten thousand new Teachers, never fo famous among you, you cannot deny but I was the Person that taught you the Gofyou Chriftians.

16. And let me intreat you all befeech you be ye fol- to keep to the fame Rule of lowers of me. Faith and Doctrine I at first inftructed you in; and particularly your new Teachers not to fet up themfelves any longer against others, but to imitate me in a meek and uniform Behaviour.

17. For this caufe have I fent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved fon, and faithful in the Lord, who fhall bring you

into remembrance of

17. To convince them of which
Behaviour of mine, I now fend
my
beloved Timothy to you, who
trine and Practice in every Church
can fufficiently teftify my Doc-
I am concern'd in.

my ways which be in Chrift, as I teach every where in every

church.

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19. But I will come to you fhortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech

of them which are

18. Some of your new Teachers perhaps may boaftingly pretend that I fend Timothy, because I dare not come and vindicate

19. But let them be affured, I fhall fhortly be with them, by God's Help; and fhall not only clear my felf, but take an Account of them too. I fhall not examine what Eloquence and Philofophy they are Masters of, but what Spiritual Gifts and Qualifications they are endowed withal. Those are the Things that qualify a true Christian Apostle.

puffed up, but the

power.

20. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

20. For the Chriftian Religion is not to be understood, preached and propagated by the Powers of

human Learning, but by the Inspiration and miraculous Endowments of the Holy Ghoft.

21. What will ye? fhall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of

21. And let them take Warning, and chufe how they will be treated by me. For if they will reform and correct this proud and infolent Behaviour, I fhall treat them with brotherly Love and Tenderness; but if not, I fhall ufe my apoftolical Power, and inflict fuch fevere * Punishment upon them as their Carriage deferves.

meekness?

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* ῥάβδῳ. Ver. 21. 'Ey paßde. With a Rod, most probably fignifies fuch corporal Punishments as the Apostles were enabled by a miraculous Power, to inflict upon obftinate Offenders, as in the Cafe of Ananias and Saphira. See Chap. v. 4, 5, 2 Cor. xiii. 10. and 1 Tim. i. zo.

BIRSACOREGSERFERONINIA

CHAP. V.

The CONTENTS.

One of the Faction against St. Paul had married his Mother-in-Law, even while her Husband lived. Some of the Faction defend him. The Apostle feverely handles him, and expoftulates with them. Warning against the Sin of Uncleanness, and fo much as converfing with any Chriftian that was notoriously guilty of it. He exhorts the Church to excommunicate and punish fuch Offenders.

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T is reported I. commonly that there is fornication among you, and fuch * fornication as is not fo much as named a

Threatned (Chap. iv. 19, A. D. 57. 21.) to come among you, and take due Cognizance of your Miscarriages; and 'tis Time for me fo to do, for I am certainly informed of one moft fcandalous mongst the Gentiles, Crime committed among you at Corinth. One of you, it seems, has marry'd his Mother-in-Law;

that one fhould have

his fathers wife.

a Thing that many Heathens are ashamed of, if it be not exprefly forbidden in their Laws *.

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*Ver. 1. Fornication, ogveia, Uncleanness; including all the feveral Kinds of it. That of Inceft here, and the rest in the following Chapters, are easily distinguish'd by an attentive Reader. See Mr. Lock's NOTE on this Verfe.

A. D. 57. though I were pre- of the Holy Spirit, as if I were actually among you.

fent, concerning him

that hath fo done this
deed;

4. In the name of
our Lord Jefus Chrift,
when ye are gathered
together, and my spi-
rit, with the power of
our Lord Jefus Chrift,
our Lord Jefus Chrift,
5. To deliver fuch
an one unto Satan for

the destruction of the See Ch. Hefh, that the fpirit may be faved in the 1 Tim. i. day of the Lord Jefus.

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4 & 5. That in a full Affembly of your Church, by the Authority of our Lord Jefus Chrifi; and under my fpiritual Direction, you immediately expel this Man from the Chriftian Church, and deliver him to Satan, till by fufficient Punishment, both of Mind and Body, he is brought to a due Senfe of his Crime, and by a true Repentance may be restored to the Church, and at laft be faved.

6. Your glorying is 6. Certainly, to defend and not good know ye boaft in fo notorious an Offender, not that a little leaven is of dreadful Confequence. Such leaveneth the whole an Example thus unpunifhed, will lump? in a little Time, like Leaven, corrupt and spoil the Principles of your whole Church.

7. Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Chrift our paffover is

7. Remember you are Chriftians; that Chrift the Son of God, the true Pafchal Lamb, was flain for your Redemption from Sin and Mifery; and that it is impoffible you can be his true Church, or perform any acceptable Service to him, unless you clear and purge yourselves of such Wickedness and wicked Perfons as this, with as much Care and Concern as the Jews did their Houses of all Leaven, before they eat their Paffover.

facrificed for us.

8. Therefore let us keep the feaft, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of fincerity and truth.

S. No religious Duties, I fay, but especially that of the holy Sacrament, the folemn Commemoration of his Death and Sufferings, can be duly performed by you, till you free yourselves and your Church of fuch open unclean Prac tices, and vile Pretenders; and live up to the Gospel Purity and Sincerity.

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9. I wrote unto you in an epistle, not to company with fornicators †.

10. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world,

or

or with the covetous,
or extortioners,
with idolaters; for
then mult ye needs
go out of the world.

9 & 10. I was intended* to A. D. 57° write to you before this, to warn you not fo much as to converse **Eyeswith any People given to notori- a. ous Uncleanness. I don't mean tПógvos. See Ver. 1. that fhould renounce all Conyou

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verfation with your heathen Neighbourhood (whofe very Religion and Laws allows them in fome Kinds of this Vice, and) who are generally addicted to Covetoufnefs, Extortion, or fome fuch Immorality, for I know you cannot well avoid that; and I might as well bid you leave the World, as not converse with the People you live amongst.

11. But now I have written unto you, not to keep company, if any man that is called

a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or .a drunkard, or an extortioner, with such an 12. For what have I to do to judge them alfo that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

11. My Meaning is (and I now particularly charge you to obferve it) that you utterly refufe to converfe with, or take any Notice of any Chriftian Profeffor, be he who he will, that is known to be guilty of fuch notorious Practices.

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12. As for Heathens, I fay, and the Crimes they are guilty of, it is not mine nor your Bufinefs to call them to an Account, or pass a judicial Sentence upon them. But 'tis your Bufinefs, and your indifpenfable Duty too, as Chriftians, to condemn and punish the scandalous Members of your own religious Society.

13. But them that 13. Leaving the Heathens thereare without, God fore to the Judgment of GOD, judgeth. Therefore their juft and proper Master, do

put

your

Ver. 12, 13. Note, The true Pointing of these two Verfes is, most probably, that which Theophylact obferves to have been in fome Copies; and the Reading fhould be this, For what? Have I any Thing to do to judge them alfo that are without? No judge ye them that are within; them that are without God judgetb.

Πόρνοις.

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