1 Coríntios 5
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1 Coríntios 5:1
This person was clearly deserving of death for his crime, but those who supported him were not innocent either. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:2
Paul humbles their pride, but in such a way that instead of making them angry he makes them willing to cooperate with him. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:4
The Corinthians were to eject this man not only by common consent among themselves but also in the power of Christ, whose deputy Paul was. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:5
If this man were not thrown out, the spirit of the church would not be saved on the day of judgment, because the source of the contamination was infecting them all. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:6
Just as the sin of one person contaminates many, if it is not dealt with once it is known, so also does the sin of the many who know what is happening and either do not turn away from it or pretend that they have not noticed it. Sin does not look like sin if it is not corrected or avoided by anybody. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:7
The old leaven has a double meaning here. On the one hand, it refers to false teaching, just as Jesus warned his disciples to beware the leaven of the Pharisees. On the other hand, it also refers to the sin of fornication being dealt with here. Paul teaches that the passover is the sacrifice, and not the exodus, as some people think. The sacrifice comes first, and then it is possible to make the transition from the old life to the new. For this reason it is the cross that is the saving reality signified by the passover in the Old Testament. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:8
Just as a little leaven leavens the whole lump, an evil life corrupts the whole man. Therefore Paul wants us to avoid not only evil acts but all interest in sin, so that sincerity may cleanse our lives and truth may exclude all deception. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:9
Paul tells us here that he has already written to the Corinthians once. Because they failed to take action then, he is now writing a second time. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:10
Paul means that it would be better to die than to mix with fellow believers who sin like the fornicator in question, because death would put an end to it sooner rather than later. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:11
Note that none of this applies to relations with unbelievers. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES
1 Coríntios 5:12
A bishop cannot do anything about unbelievers. But a brother who is caught doing such things he can bar not only from the sacraments but also from common intercourse with his fellows, so that when he is avoided he may feel ashamed and repent. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES