Verse 2
2. Puffed up Note on 1 Corinthians 4:6. Neither shame nor grief over this foul sin reduced their inflation. Sensuality was a fashionable indulgence in Corinth. The precise shape and rigidity of Christian ethics were not in their minds fixed; the Church took the matter easily; neither its exultation over its worldly prosperity, nor its pride in possession of spiritual gifts, was toned down.
Rather mourned Instead of indifference and persistent pride the whole Church should have melted in grief for the downfall of this one man. The Christian body should have sympathetic nerves for the sin or sorrow of each and every member.
That To the end that. Their grief should have prompted them to the instant removal of the sin, even at the expense of the excommunication of the sinner.
Taken away By the law of Christ, the great head of the Church. That not by death but by excommunication is meant, is clear from Paul’s directions 1 Corinthians 5:4-5.
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