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| Chapter III.—The sad state of the Corinthian church after sedition arose in it from envy and emulation.
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Chapter III.—The sad state of the
Corinthian church after sedition arose in it from envy and emulation.
Every kind of honour and
happiness13
| 13 Literally,
“enlargement” | was bestowed upon you, and then was
fulfilled that which is written, “My beloved did eat and drink, and
was enlarged and became fat, and kicked.”14
Hence flowed emulation and envy, strife and sedition, persecution
and disorder, war and captivity. So the worthless rose up against the
honoured, those of no reputation
against such as were
renowned, the foolish against the wise, the young against those advanced
in years. For this reason righteousness and peace
are now far departed from you, inasmuch as every one abandons the fear of
God, and is become blind in His faith,15
| 15 It seems necessary to refer αὐτοῦ to
God, in opposition to the translation given by Abp. Wake and
others. | neither walks in the ordinances of His appointment,
nor acts a part becoming a Christian,16
but walks
after his own wicked lusts, resuming the practice of an unrighteous and
ungodly envy, by which death itself entered into the world.17
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