Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Corinthians 5:11
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11. But now —"Now" does not express time, but " the case being so, " namely, that to avoid fornicators, c., of the world, you would have to leave the world altogether, which would be absurd. So "now" is used in Hebrews 11:16 . Thus we avoid making the apostle now retract a command which he had before given. I have written —that is, my meaning in the letter I wrote was "not to keep company," &c. a brother —contrasted with a "fornicator . . . of the world " ( Hebrews 11:16- : ). There is less danger in associating with open worldlings than with carnal professors. Here, as in Ephesians 5:3 Ephesians 5:5 , "covetousness" is joined with "fornication": the common fount of both being "the fierce and ever fiercer longing of the creature, which has turned from God, to fill itself with the inferior objects of sense" [TRENCH, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament ]. Hence "idolatry" is associated with them: and the covetous man is termed an "idolater" ( Numbers 25:1 ; Numbers 25:2 ). The Corinthians did not fall into open idolatry, but ate things offered to idols, so making a compromise with the heathen; just as they connived at fornication. Thus this verse prepares for the precepts in 1 Corinthians 8:4 , c. Compare the similar case of fornication, combined with a similar idolatrous compromise, after the pattern of Israel with the Midianites ( 1 Corinthians 8:4- : ). no not to eat —not to sit at the same table with such whether at the love-feasts ( agapæ ) or in private intercourse, much more at the Lord's table: at the last, too often now the guests "are not as children in one family, but like a heterogeneous crowd of strangers in an inn" [BENGEL] (compare Galatians 2:12 ; 2 John 1:10 ; 2 John 1:11 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"
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