Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
What? Have ye not houses? (Mh gar oikiav ouk exete) The double negative (mh--ouk) in the single question is like the idiom in 1 Corinthians 9:4 f. which see. Mh expects a negative answer while ouk negatives the verb exete. "For do you fail to have houses?" Paul is not approving gluttony and drunkenness but only expressing horror at their sacrilege (despising, katafroneite) of the church of God.
That have not (touv mh exontav). Not those without houses, but those who have nothing, "the have-nots" (Findlay) like 2 Corinthians 8:12, in contrast with oi exontev "the haves" (the men of property).
What shall I say to you? (ti eipw umin) Deliberative subjunctive that well expresses Paul's bewilderment.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Romans 2:4
1 Corinthians 1:2
1 Corinthians 11:34
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