{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-350","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":5,"chapter_to":5,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":1,"verse_to":1},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: This person was clearly deserving of death for his crime, but those who supported him were not innocent either.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: When he was discoursing about their divisions, he did not indeed at once address them vehemently, but more gently at first; and afterwards, he ended in accusation, saying thus, \"For it hath been signified unto me concerning you, my brethren, by them which are of the household of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.\" But in this place, not so; but he lays about him immediately and makes the reproach of the accusation as general as possible. For he said not, \"Why did such an one commit fornication?\" but, \"It is reported that there is fornication among you;\" that they might as persons altogether aloof from his charge take it easily; but might be filled with such anxiety as was natural when the whole body was wounded, and the Church had incurred reproach. \"For no one,\" saith he, \"will state it thus, 'such an one hath committed fornication,' but, 'in the Church of Corinthians that sin hath been committed.'\"</p><p>And he said not, \"Fornication is perpetrated,\" but, \"Is reported,-such as is not even named among the Gentiles.\" For so continually he makes the Gentiles a topic of reproach to the believers. Thus writing to the Thessalonians, he said, \"Let every one possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification, not in the passion of lust, even as the rest of the Gentiles.\" And to the Colossians and Ephesians, \"That you should no longer walk, as the other Gentiles walk.\" Now if their committing the same sins was unpardonable, when they even outdid the Gentiles, what place can we find for them? tell me: \"inasmuch as among the Gentiles,\" so he speaks, \"not only they dare no such thing, but they do not even give it a name. Do you see to what point he aggravated his charge? For when they are convicted of inventing such modes of uncleanness as the unbelievers, so far from venturing on them, do not even know of, the sin must be exceeding great, beyond all words. And the clause, \"among you,\" is spoken also emphatically; that is, \"Among you, the faithful, who have been favored with so high mysteries, the partakers of secrets, the guests invited to heaven.\" Dost thou mark with what indignant feeling his words overflow? with what anger against all? For had it not been for the great wrath of which he was full, had he not been setting himself against them all, he would have spoken thus: \"Having heard that such and such a person hath committed fornication, I charge you to punish him.\" But as it is he doth not so; he rather challenges all at once. And indeed, if they had written first, this is what he probably would have said. Since however so far from writing, they had even thrown the fault into the shade, on this account he orders his discourse more vehemently.</p><p>Wherefore said he not, \"That he should abuse his father's wife?\" The extreme foulness of the deed caused him to shrink. He hurries by it accordingly, with a sort of scrupulousness as though it had been explicitly mentioned before. And hereby again he aggravates the charge, implying that such things are ventured on among them as even to speak plainly of was intolerable for Paul. Wherefore also, as he goes on, he uses the same mode of speech, saying, \"Him who hath so done this thing:\" and is again ashamed and blushes to speak out; which also we are wont to do in regard of matters extremely disgraceful. And he said not, \"his step-mother,\" but, \"his father's wife;\" so as to strike much more severely. For when the mere terms are sufficient to convey the charge, he proceeds with them simply, adding nothing.<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 15</i></p><p><b>Origen of Alexandria</b>: We learn from this that there are different kinds of immorality, some of which are more serious than others. When God judges it, he will take extenuating factors into account and vary the punishment accordingly. In this case, Paul is teaching us that even when there has been a legal marriage ceremony, if it goes against the law of God, it is immoral and will be condemned accordingly.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 2.23.15-20</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Of course, a man of the noble courage of our apostle (to say nothing of the Holy Ghost) was afraid, when writing to the children whom he had begotten in the gospel, to speak freely of the God of the world; for against Him he could not possibly seem to have a word to say, except only in a straightforward manner! I quite admit, that, according to the Creator's law, the man was an offender\" who had his father's wife.\" He followed, no doubt, the principles of natural and public law.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Thus He has not prohibited judging, but taught (how to do it). Whence the apostle withal judges, and that in a case of fornication, that \"such a man must be surrendered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh; \" chiding them likewise because \"brethren\" were not \"judged at the bar of the saints: \" for he goes on and says, \"To what (purpose is it) for me to judge those who are without? \"\"But you remit, in order that remission may be granted you by God.<br/><i>— On Modesty</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"45c24932649fbb218a4036c7d782fa081f1a1f7384735e3ad0db5375bc385963","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":350,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"628f6c76d7219e12475726468879220ca32b84633582af334b1b8ac878d2c2e8","translator":null,"work":null}