2 Coríntios 13

2 Coríntios 13:5

Lenski notes that "ei meti implies that such a thing as the Corinthians being disproved or spurious cannot be possible. (from What Is the Meaning of “Examine Yourselves” in 2 Corinthians 13:5?) Fail the test is translated with the pithy word "reprobate" in the King James Version, although some interpreters strongly object to the use of this rendering of adokimos in light of their belief that Paul was not addressing a "mixed" group at Corinth, but a church which was comprised solely of believers ("100%"!!!). There are those who chaff at the possibility that there might have been unbelievers in the church at Corinth (forgetting that even the 12 disciples harbored one very good counterfeit unbeliever!) and thus they propose that those who "fail the test" are believers who will lose their eternal rewards. Beloved, Paul states nothing about eternal rewards in this passage and to postulate such a premise is to add to the text what is not present. Fix’d is their everlasting state, Could man repent, ’tis then too late. There are no acts of pardon pass’d In the cold grave, to which we haste; But darkness, death, and long despair, Reign in eternal silence there.” Henry Alford - Reprobates, literally ''not abiding the proof,"; Worthless, -- i.e., in this case, "mere pretended Christians." (The New Testament for English Readers) David