I Corinthians
Chapter
5
1~~
It is actually reported that there is fornication
among you.
And
such a type of fornication
as
is not so much as named among the Gentiles -
that
one should have his father's wife!
{Note: In the Greek, what is being reported will shock the congregation. A member of the Corinthian Church was committing incest. RBT says that others were boasting that even the unbelievers would not do that! This guy of theirs was 'unique'!}
2~~
And you are puffed up {idiom: 'almost bragging about it'}
and
have not rather mourned
that
he that has done this deed
might
be taken away from among you.
{Note: As an Apostle, Paul could judge and also decree the Sin unto Death to this man and will (though apparently later it is rescinded).}
{Mechanics
of discipline for this joker- verses 3-5}
3~~
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit,
have
judged already . . . as though I were present . . .
concerning
him that has so done this deed.
4-5~~
In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
when
you are gathered together,
and
my spirit with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5~~
to
deliver such a one unto Satan
for
the destruction of the flesh,
that
the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
{Note: Paul is saying here that the judgement will be applied at the next Church service. And, again Paul is saying 'once saved always saved' . . . this bird still did not lose his salvation.}
6~~
Your boasting is not good.
Don't
you know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
{Note:
This is an idiom similar to one bad apple in a barrel today.}
7~~
Purge out therefore the old leaven,
that
you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened.
For
even Christ . . . our Passover . . . is sacrificed for us.
{Note: Paul is saying that the Jewish tradition of Passover was a representation of Christ as our savior.}
8~~
Therefore let us keep the feast not with old leaven,
neither
with the leaven of malice {refers to mental attitude sins}
and
wicked deeds
but
with the unleavened bread of sincerity
{hold it up to the Word of God}
even
the truth/doctrine.
{Clarification
of previous instructions}
9~~
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators.
{Note: RBT says Paul wrote 4 epistles to the Corinthians but two were lost to us.}
10~~
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world,
or
with the covetous,
or
extortioners,
or
with idolaters
for
then must you need to go out into the world.
{Note: Paul is clarifying. By fornicators he did not mean to avoid unbelievers . . . to evangelize them they have to go out into the world. But avoid the BELIEVERS who are engaging in these things!}
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 {lust motivated}, or
an idolater {religious activity}, or
a railer {gossip, malinger}, or
a drunkard, or
an extortioner . . .
with
such a one . . .
do
not have fellowship {idiom - literally is 'no not to eat'}.
12~~
For what have I to do to judge them also that are without
{outside the Church - unbelievers. This is saying that it is not
Paul's job to judge the sins of the unbelievers}?
Do
not you judge them that are within?
{Note:
Paul is rebuffing them for NOT separating from the beleiver in incest.}
13~~
But them that are without {unbelievers} God judges.
Therefore
put away from among yourselves that wicked person.
{Note: Paul is telling them to excommunicate the believer involved in incest. In II Corinthians this bird rebounds and Paul tells them to let him back into the Church!}
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