Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 6].
sanctuary as in 3:16 which see. Our spirits dwell in our bodies
and the Holy Spirit dwells in our spirits. Some of the Gnostics
split hairs between the sins of the body and fellowship with God
in the spirit. Paul will have none of this subterfuge. One's body
is the very shrine for the Holy Spirit. In Corinth was the temple
to Aphrodite in which fornication was regarded as consecration
instead of desecration. Prostitutes were there as priestesses of
Aphrodite, to help men worship the goddess by fornication. {Ye
are not your own} (\ouk este heaut•n\). Predicate genitive. Ye do
not belong to yourselves, even if you could commit fornication
without personal contamination or self-violation. Christianity
makes unchastity dishonour in both sexes. There is no double
standard of morality. Paul's plea here is primarily to men to be
clean as members of Christ's body.
6:20 {For ye were bought with a price} (\•gorasth•te gar tim•s\).
First aorist passive indicative of \agoraz•\, old verb to buy in
the marketplace (\agora\). With genitive of price. Paul does not
here state the price as Peter does in 1Pe 1:19 (the blood of
Christ) and as Jesus does in Mt 20:28 (his life a ransom). The
Corinthians understood his meaning. {Glorify God therefore in
your body} (\doxasate d• ton theon en t•i s•mati hum•n\).
Passionate conclusion to his powerful argument against sexual
uncleanness. \D•\ is a shortened form of \•d•\ and is an urgent
inferential particle. See on ¯Lu 2:15. Paul holds to his high
ideal of the destiny of the body and urges glorifying God in it.
Some of the later Christians felt that Paul's words could be
lightened a bit by adding "and in your spirits which are his,"
but these words are found only in late MSS. and are clearly not
genuine. Paul's argument stands four-square for the dignity of
the body as the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit united to the Lord
Jesus.
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Word Pictures in the New Testament
(1 Corinthians: Chapter 6)