St. Paul's Epistles to the Corinthians; An Attempt to Convey Their Spirit and Significance (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1852. Excerpt: ... PART II. (chaps. V.-XI.) THE IMMORALITIES AND PERPLEXITIES OF THE CORINTHIAN CHURCH. SECTION'I. SPECULATIVE PRETENSIONS AND MORAL ROTTENNESS. INCEST. LITIGATIONS. DOMESTIC RELATIONS BE- TWEEN BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS. CHAPS. V.-VII. V. 1. It is commonly reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, -- that a man should have his father's 2 wife. And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned that he that hath done this thing might be 3 taken away from among you. For I, verily, as present in spirit, though absent in body, have judged already as if I was present, him that hath so done this thing, 4 -- In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit are gathered together, with the power 5 of our Lord Jesus Christ, to commit such an one to Satan, for the extinction of the flesh, that the spirit 6 may be delivered in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your boasting is not good. Know ye not, that a little leaven 7 leaveneth the whole lump ? Purge out the old leaven that ye may be a new lump, inasmuch as ye are unleavened, -- since our Passover, Christ, is slain for us. 8 Wherefore let us keep Passover, -- not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in an epistle not to company with for 10 nicators, not indeed absolutely, as including the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, the rapacious, and the idola 11 trous, for then must ye have gone out of the world; but now I have written to you, if any one called a brother is a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or a railer, or a drunkard, or rapacious, with such an one not to keep com 12 pany, not even to eat. For what have I to do with judg 13 ing those without? Do not ye judge...