Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 5].
epistol•i\). Not the epistolary aorist, but a reference to an
epistle to the Corinthians earlier than this one (our First
Corinthians), one not preserved to us. What a "find" it would be
if a bundle of papyri in Egypt should give it back to us? {To
have no company with fornicators} (\m• sunanamignusthai
pornois\). Present middle infinitive with \m•\ in an indirect
command of a late double compound verb used in the papyri to mix
up with (\sun-ana-mignusthai\, a \mi\ verb). It is in the N.T.
only here and verse 11; 2Th 3:14 which see. It is used here
with the associative instrumental case (\pornois\, from \pera•,
pern•mi\, to sell, men and women who sell their bodies for lust).
It is a pertinent question today how far modern views try to put
a veneer over the vice in men and women.
5:10 {Not altogether} (\ou pant•s\). Not absolutely, not in all
circumstances. Paul thus puts a limitation on his prohibition and
confines it to members of the church. He has no jurisdiction over
the outsiders (this world, \tou kosmou toutou\). {The covetous}
(\tois pleonektais\). Old word for the over-reachers, those
avaricious for more and more (\pleon, ech•\, to have more). In
N.T. only here, 6:10; Eph 5:5. It always comes in bad company
(the licentious and the idolaters) like the modern gangsters who
form a combination of liquor, lewdness, lawlessness for money and
power. {Extortioners} (\harpaxin\). An old adjective with only
one gender, rapacious (Mt 7:15; Lu 18:11), and as a substantive
robber or extortioner (here and 6:10). Bandits, hijackers,
grafters they would be called today. {Idolaters}
(\eid•lolatrais\). Late word for hirelings (\latris\) of the
idols (\eid•lon\), so our very word idolater. See 6:9; 10:7; Eph
5:5; Re 21:8; 22:15. Nageli regards this word as a Christian
formation. {For then must ye needs} (\epei •pheilete oun\). This
neat Greek idiom of \epei\ with the imperfect indicative
(\•pheilete\, from \opheil•\, to be under obligation) is really
the conclusion of a second-class condition with the condition
unexpressed (Robertson, _Grammar_, p. 965). Sometimes \an\ is
used also as in Heb 10:2, but with verbs of obligation or
necessity \an\ is usually absent as here (cf. Heb 9:20). The
unexpressed condition here would be, "if that were true"
(including fornicators, the covetous, extortioners, idolaters of
the outside world). \Ara\ means in that case.
5:11 {But now I write unto you} (\nun de egrapsa humin\). This is
the epistolary aorist referring to this same epistle and not to a
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