1 Corinzi 5:6

6 Il vostro vanto non è buono; non sapete voi che un poco di lievito levita tutta la pasta?

1 Corinzi 5:6 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your glorying is not good
Their glorying in their outward flourishing condition, in their riches and wealth, and in their ministers, in their wisdom and parts when under such an humbling dispensation; and especially if their glorying was in the sin itself, and their connivance at it, it was far from being good, it was very criminal, as the consequence of it was dangerous:

know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
This, in nature, is what everybody knows; and the proverb, which is much used by the Jews F6, was common in the mouths of all, and the meaning of it easy to be understood: thus, whether applied to the leaven of false doctrine, nothing is more manifest, than when this is let alone, and a stop is not put to it, it increases to more ungodliness; or to vice and immorality, as here; which if not taken notice of by a church, is not faithfully reproved and severely censured, as the case requires, will endanger the whole community; it may spread by example, and, under the connivance of the church, to the corrupting of good manners, and infecting of many.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 Neve Shalom apud Caphtor, fol. 41. 1.

1 Corinzi 5:6 In-Context

4 voi, e lo spirito mio essendo raunati nel nome del nostro Signor Gesù Cristo, con la podestà del Signor nostro Gesù Cristo;
5 che il tale, dico, sia dato in mano di Satana, alla perdizion della carne, acciocchè lo spirito sia salvato nel giorno del Signor Gesù.
6 Il vostro vanto non è buono; non sapete voi che un poco di lievito levita tutta la pasta?
7 Purgate adunque il vecchio lievito, acciocchè siate nuova pasta, secondo che siete senza lievito; poichè la nostra pasqua, cioè Cristo, è stata immolata per noi.
8 Perciò facciam la festa, non con vecchio lievito, nè con lievito di malvagità, e di nequizia, ma con azzimi di sincerità, e di verità.
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