Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 5:1
Impurity in the Church
SUMMARY OF I CORINTHIANS 5: The Incestuous Person. The Discipline
Commanded. The Old Leaven to Be Purged Out. Heinous Offenders Not to
Be Recognized Socially in the Church.
[There is] fornication among you. Licentiousness was one of the
besetting sins of the Gentiles at this time. Purity of life was almost
unknown. So far was unchastity from being held in disrepute that
temples were everywhere dedicated to Aphrodite (Venus), and in Corinth
at the time when Paul wrote there stood one with a thousand
priestesses, harlots, a gigantic brothel in the name of religion. It is
not wonderful that time was required to cleanse the church, formed of
converts from these heathen, from impurity.
Not so much as named among the Gentiles. There was in the church
a still worse case than the Gentiles would condone; a man had taken,
probably after the death of his father, his father's wife, his own
step-mother. This sort of incest was condemned by Greeks and Romans
(Cicero, "Oratio pro Cluentio").
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 5:1
1 Corinthians 10:8
2 Corinthians 2:5
2 Corinthians 7:11
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