Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on 1 Corinthians 5:2
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2. puffed up —with your own wisdom and knowledge, and the eloquence of your favorite teachers: at a time when ye ought to be "mourning" at the scandal caused to religion by the incest. Paul mourned because they did not mourn ( 2 Corinthians 2:4 ). We ought to mourn over the transgressions of others, and repent of our own ( 2 Corinthians 12:21 ) [BENGEL]. that —ye have not felt such mourning as would lead to the result that, &c. taken away from among you —by excommunication. The incestuous person was hereby brought to bitter repentance, in the interval between the sending of the first and second Epistles ( 2 Corinthians 12:21- : ). Excommunication in the Christian Church corresponded to that in the Jewish synagogue, in there being a lighter and heavier form: the latter an utter separation from church fellowship and the Lord's house, the former exclusion from the Lord's Supper only but not from the Church. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-3" class="com-number"
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