Verse 9
c. Separateness must be from evildoers in the Church where it must be rigid rather than from those without, over whom Church discipline has no authority, 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 .
9. I wrote In a former epistle not now extant. Note on Acts 19:12. A respectable minority of commentators doubt the reality of this former epistle. They argue, 1. The words an epistle (literally, in the Greek, the epistle) might be rendered this epistle; and that the reference might be to 1 Corinthians 5:1-5. But this reference we think to be scarcely admissible. 2. It is not to be supposed that an apostolic epistle, a part of the sacred canon, would be lost. But we have no reason to suppose that Paul and the other apostles wrote no more letters than we now have in the New Testament. See note at close of preceding chapter.
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