44. That believers who differ among
themselves ought not to refer to a Gentile judge.
4419
In the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians:
“Dares any of you, having a matter against an
other, to discuss it among the
unrighteous, and not among the saints? Know ye not that the
saints shall judge this world?”
4420
And again: “Now
indeed there is altogether a fault among you, because ye have judgments
one against another. Wherefore do ye not rather suffer injury? or
wherefore are ye not rather defrauded? But ye do wrong, and
defraud, and this your brethren. Know ye not that the unrighteous
shall not obtain the kingdom of God?”
4421
4419
[The oath on the Bible in our courts, and other Christian forms,
are important in Christian morals, as bearing upon our right to seek
redress at the law, while it is
Christian
law.]
4420
1 Cor. vi. 1, 2
.
4421
1 Cor. vi.
7–9
.