{"commentary":{"id":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","website":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamieson-Fausset-Brown_Bible_Commentary","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/","licenseNotes":null,"licenseNotice":null,"englishName":"Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary","language":"eng","textDirection":"rtl","sha256":"db3d4c8b3c1f32ef9d1430a57392e02bda3a17aac1f9bbe398461de021a3cb13","availableFormats":["json"],"listOfBooksApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/books.json","listOfProfilesApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/profiles.json","numberOfBooks":66,"totalNumberOfChapters":1187,"totalNumberOfVerses":17056,"totalNumberOfProfiles":0,"languageName":"English","languageEnglishName":"English"},"book":{"id":"1CO","commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","name":"1 Corinthians","commonName":"1 Corinthians","introduction":"The AUTHENTICITY of this Epistle is attested by CLEMENT OF ROME [First Epistle to the Corinthians, 47], POLYCARP [Epistle to the Philippians, 11], and IRENÆUS [Against Heresies, 4.27.3]. The city to which it was sent was famed for its wealth and commerce, which were chiefly due to its situation between the Ionian and Ægean Seas on the isthmus connecting the Peloponese with Greece. In Paul's time it was the capital of the province Achaia and the seat of the Roman proconsul (Act 18:12). The state of morals in it was notorious for debauchery, even in the profligate heathen world; so much so that \"to Corinthianize\" was a proverbial phrase for \"to play the wanton\"; hence arose dangers to the purity of the Christian Church at Corinth. That Church was founded by Paul on his first visit (Acts 18:1-17).\n\nHe had been the instrument of converting many Gentiles (Co1 12:2), and some Jews (Act 18:8), notwithstanding the vehement opposition of the countrymen of the latter (Act 18:5), during the year and a half in which he sojourned there. The converts were chiefly of the humbler classes (Co1 1:26, &c.). Crispus (Co1 1:14; Act 18:8), Erastus, and Gaius (Caius) were, however, men of rank (Rom 16:23). A variety of classes is also implied in Co1 11:22. The risk of contamination by contact with the surrounding corruptions, and the temptation to a craving for Greek philosophy and rhetoric (which Apollos' eloquent style rather tended to foster, Act 18:24, &c.) in contrast to Paul's simple preaching of Christ crucified (Co1 2:1, &c.), as well as the opposition of certain teachers to him, naturally caused him anxiety. Emissaries from the Judaizers of Palestine boasted of \"letters of commendation\" from Jerusalem, the metropolis of the faith. They did not, it is true, insist on circumcision in refined Corinth, where the attempt would have been hopeless, as they did among the simpler people of Galatia; but they attacked the apostolic authority of Paul (Co1 9:1-2; Co2 10:1, Co2 10:7-8), some of them declaring themselves followers of Cephas, the chief apostle, others boasting that they belonged to Christ Himself (Co1 1:12; Co2 10:7), while they haughtily repudiated all subordinate teaching. Those persons gave out themselves for apostles (Co2 11:5, Co2 11:13). The ground taken by them was that Paul was not one of the Twelve, and not an eye-witness of the Gospel facts, and durst not prove his apostleship by claiming sustenance from the Christian Church. Another section avowed themselves followers of Paul himself, but did so in a party spirit, exalting the minister rather than Christ. The followers of Apollos, again, unduly prized his Alexandrian learning and eloquence, to the disparagement of the apostle, who studiously avoided any deviation from Christian simplicity (Co1 2:1-5). In some of this last philosophizing party there may have arisen the Antinomian tendency which tried to defend theoretically their own practical immorality: hence their denial of the future resurrection, and their adoption of the Epicurean motto, prevalent in heathen Corinth, \"Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die\" (Co1 15:32). Hence, perhaps, arose their connivance at the incestuous intercourse kept up by one of the so-called Christian body with his stepmother during his father's life. The household of Chloe informed Paul of many other evils: such as contentions, divisions, and lawsuits brought against brethren in heathen law courts by professing Christians; the abuse of their spiritual gifts into occasions of display and fanaticism; the interruption of public worship by simultaneous and disorderly ministrations, and decorum violated by women speaking unveiled (contrary to Oriental usage), and so usurping the office of men, and even the holy communion desecrated by greediness and revelling on the part of the communicants. Other messengers, also, came from Corinth, consulting him on the subject of (1) the controversy about meats offered to idols; (2) the disputes about celibacy and marriage; (3) the due exercise of spiritual gifts in public worship; (4) the best mode of making the collection which he had requested for the saints at Jerusalem (Co1 16:1, &c.). Such were the circumstances which called forth the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the most varied in its topics of all the Epistles.\n\nIn Co1 5:9, \"I wrote unto you in an Epistle not to company with fornicators,\" it is implied that Paul had written a previous letter to the Corinthians (now lost). Probably in it he had also enjoined them to make a contribution for the poor saints at Jerusalem, whereupon they seem to have asked directions as to the mode of doing so, to which he now replies (Co1 16:2). It also probably announced his intention of visiting them on way to Macedonia, and again on his return from Macedonia (Co2 1:15-16), which purpose he changed hearing the unfavorable report from Chloe's household (Co1 16:5-7), for which he was charged with (Co2 1:17). In the first Epistle which we have, the subject of fornication is alluded to only in a way, as if he were rather replying to an excuse set up after rebuke in the matter, than introducing for the first time [ALFORD]. Preceding this former letter, he seems to have paid a second visit to Corinth. For in Co2 12:4; Co2 13:1, he speaks of his intention of paying them a third visit, implying he had already twice visited them. See on Co2 2:1; Co2 13:2; also see on Co2 1:15; Co2 1:16. It is hardly likely that during his three years' sojourn at Ephesus he would have failed to revisit his Corinthian converts, which he could so readily do by sea, there being constant maritime intercourse between the two cities. This second visit was probably a short one (compare Co1 16:7); and attended with pain and humiliation (Co2 2:1; Co2 12:21), occasioned by the scandalous conduct of so many of his own converts. His milder censures having then failed to produce reformation, he wrote briefly directing them \"not to company with fornicators.\" On their misapprehending this injunction, he explained it more fully in the Epistle, the first of the two extant (Co1 5:9, Co1 5:12). That the second visit is not mentioned in Acts is no objection to its having really taken place, as that book is fragmentary and omits other leading incidents in Paul's life; for example, his visit to Arabia, Syria, and Cilicia (Gal 1:17-21).\n\nThe PLACE OF WRITING is fixed to be Ephesus (Co1 16:8). The subscription in English Version, \"From Philippi,\" has no authority whatever, and probably arose from a mistaken translation of Co1 16:5, \"For I am passing through Macedonia.\" At the time of writing Paul implies (Co1 16:8) that he intended to leave Ephesus after Pentecost of that year. He really did leave it about Pentecost (A.D. 57). Compare Act 19:20. The allusion to Passover imagery in connection with our Christian Passover, Easter (Co1 5:7), makes it likely that the season was about Easter. Thus the date of the Epistle is fixed with tolerable accuracy, about Easter, certainly before Pentecost, in the third year of his residence at Ephesus, A.D. 57. For other arguments, see CONYBEARE and HOWSON'S Life and Epistles of St. Paul.\n\nThe Epistle is written in the name of Sosthenes \"[our] brother.\" BIRKS supposes he is the same as the Sosthenes, Act 18:17, who, he thinks, was converted subsequently to that occurrence. He bears no part in the Epistle itself, the apostle in the very next verses (Co1 1:4, &c.) using the first person: so Timothy is introduced, Co2 1:1. The bearers of the Epistle were probably Stephanas, Fortunatus, and Achaicus (see the subscription, Co1 16:24), whom he mentions (Co1 16:17-18) as with him then, but who he implies are about to return back to Corinth; and therefore he commends them to the regard of the Corinthians. \n\n\n\nNext: 1 Corinthians Chapter 1\n\n","order":46,"numberOfChapters":16,"sha256":"9bf5da45bfa8b3ebeb897bb227e19d039c2c950176364829d04b3dcc496cb600","firstChapterNumber":1,"firstChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/1CO/1.json","firstChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"1CO","chapter":1},"lastChapterNumber":16,"lastChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/1CO/16.json","lastChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"1CO","chapter":16},"totalNumberOfVerses":416},"chapter":{"number":6,"content":[{"type":"verse","number":2,"content":["Do ye not know--as a truth universally recognized by Christians. Notwithstanding all your glorying in your \"knowledge,\" ye are acting contrary to it (Co1 1:4-5; Co1 8:1). The oldest manuscripts have \"Or\" before \"know ye not\"; that is, \"What! (expressing surprise) know ye not,\" &c. \n\nsaints . . . judge--that is, \"rule,\" including judgment: as assessors of Christ. Mat 19:28, \"judging,\" that is, \"ruling over.\" (Compare Psa 49:14; Dan 7:22, Dan 7:27; Rev 2:26; Rev 3:21; Rev 20:4). There is a distinction drawn by able expositors between the saints who judge or rule, and the world which is ruled by them: as there is between the elected (Mat 20:23) twelve apostles who sit on thrones judging, and the twelve tribes of Israel that are judged by them. To reign, and to be saved, are not necessarily synonymous. As Jehovah employed angels to carry the law into effect when He descended on Sinai to establish His throne in Israel, so at His coming the saints shall administer the kingdom for, and under, Him. The nations of the earth, and Israel the foremost, in the flesh, shall, in this view, be the subjects of the rule of the Lord and His saints in glorified bodies. The mistake of the Chiliasts was that they took the merely carnal view, restricting the kingdom to the terrestrial part. This part shall have place with the accession of spiritual and temporal blessings such as Christ's presence must produce. Besides this earthly glory, there shall be the heavenly glory of the saints reigning in transfigured bodies, and holding such blessed intercourse with mortal men, as angels had with men of old, and as Christ, Moses, and Elias, in glory had with Peter, James, and John, in the flesh at the transfiguration (Ti2 2:12; Pe2 1:16-18). But here the \"world\" seems to be the unbelieving world that is to be \"condemned\" (Co1 11:22), rather than the whole world, including the subject nations which are to be brought under Christ's sway; however, it may include both those to be condemned, with the bad angels, and those about to be brought into obedience to the sway of Christ with His saints. Compare Mat 25:32, Mat 25:40, \"all nations,\" \"these my brethren\" on the thrones with Him. The event will decide the truth of this view. \n\njudged by you--or, before you (compare Co1 3:22). \n\nsmallest matters--The weightiest of earthly questions at issue are infinitely small compared with those to be decided on the judgment-day.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":3,"content":["judge angels--namely, bad angels. We who are now \"a spectacle to angels\" shall then \"judge angels.\" The saints shall join in approving the final sentence of the Judge on them (Jde 1:6). Believers shall, as administrators of the kingdom under Jesus, put down all rule that is hostile to God. Perhaps, too, good angels shall then receive from the Judge, with the approval of the saints, higher honors.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":4,"content":["judgments--that is, cases for judgment. \n\nleast esteemed--literally, \"those of no esteem.\" Any, however low in the Church, rather than the heathen (Co1 1:28). Questions of earthly property are of secondary consequence in the eyes of true Christians, and are therefore delegated to those in a secondary position in the Church.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":5,"content":["your shame--Thus he checks their puffed-up spirit (Co1 5:2; compare Co1 15:34). To shame you out of your present unworthy course of litigation before the heathen, I have said (Co1 6:4), \"Set the least esteemed in the Church to judge.\" Better even this, than your present course. \n\nIs it so?--Are you in such a helpless state that, &c.? \n\nnot a wise man--though ye admire \"wisdom\" so much on other occasions (Co1 1:5, Co1 1:22). Paul alludes probably to the title, \"cachain,\" or wise man, applied to each Rabbi in Jewish councils. \n\nno, not one--not even one, amidst so many reputed among you for wisdom (Co1 3:18; Co1 4:6). \n\nshall be able--when applied to. \n\nbrethren--literally, \"brother\"; that is, judge between brother and brother. As each case should arise, the arbitrator was to be chosen from the body of the church, such a wise person as had the charism, or gift, of church government.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":6,"content":["But--emphatically answering the question in the end of Co1 6:5 in the negative. Translate, \"Nay,\" &c.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":7,"content":["utterly a fault--literally, \"a shortcoming\" (not so strong as sin). Your going to law at all is a falling short of your high privileges, not to say your doing so before unbelievers, which aggravates it. \n\nrather take wrong-- (Pro 20:22; Mat 5:39-40); that is, \"suffer yourselves to be wronged.\"\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":8,"content":["ye--emphatic. Ye, whom your Lord commanded to return good for evil, on the contrary, \"do wrong (by taking away) and defraud\" (by retaining what is entrusted to you; or \"defraud\" marks the effect of the \"wrong\" done, namely, the loss inflicted). Not only do ye not bear, but ye inflict wrongs.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":9,"content":["unrighteous--Translate, \"Doers of wrong\": referring to Co1 6:8 (compare Gal 5:21). \n\nkingdom of God--which is a kingdom of righteousness (Rom 14:17). \n\nfornicators--alluding to Co1 5:1-13; also below, Co1 6:12-18. \n\neffeminate--self-polluters, who submit to unnatural lusts.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":11,"content":["ye are washed--The Greek middle voice expresses, \"Ye have had yourselves washed.\" This washing implies the admission to the benefits of Christ's salvation generally; of which the parts are; (1) Sanctification, or the setting apart from the world, and adoption into the Church: so \"sanctified\" is used Co1 7:14; Joh 17:19. Compare Pe1 1:2, where it rather seems to mean the setting apart of one as consecrated by the Spirit in the eternal purpose God. (2) Justification from condemnation through the righteousness of God in Christ by faith (Rom 1:17). So PARÆUS. The order of sanctification before justification shows that it must be so taken, and not in the sense of progressive sanctification. \"Washed\" precedes both, and so must refer to the Christian's outward new birth of water, the sign of the inward setting apart to the Lord by the inspiration of the Spirit as the seed of new life (Joh 3:5; Eph 5:26; Tit 3:5; Heb 10:22). Paul (compare the Church of England Baptismal Service), in charity, and faith in the ideal of the Church, presumes that baptism realizes its original design, and that those outwardly baptized inwardly enter into vital communion with Christ (Gal 3:27). He presents the grand ideal which those alone realized in whom the inward and the outward baptism coalesced. At the same time he recognizes the fact that this in many cases does not hold good (Co1 6:8-10), leaving it to God to decide who are the really \"washed,\" while he only decides on broad general principles. \n\nin the name of . . . Jesus, and by the Spirit--rather, \"in the Spirit,\" that is, by His in-dwelling. Both clauses belong to the three--\"washed, sanctified, justified.\" \n\nour God--The \"our\" reminds the that amidst all his reproofs God is still the common God of himself and them.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":12,"content":["REFUTATION OF THE ANTINOMIAN DEFENSE OF FORNICATION AS IF IT WAS LAWFUL BECAUSE MEATS ARE SO. (Co1 6:12-20)\n\nAll things are lawful unto me--These, which were Paul's own words on a former occasion (to the Corinthians, compare Co1 10:23, and Gal 5:23), were made a pretext for excusing the eating of meats offered to idols, and so of what was generally connected with idolatry (Act 15:29), \"fornication\" (perhaps in the letter of the Corinthians to Paul, Co1 7:1). Paul's remark had referred only to things indifferent: but they wished to treat fornication as such, on the ground that the existence of bodily appetites proved the lawfulness of their gratification. \n\nme--Paul giving himself as a sample of Christians in general. \n\nbut I--whatever others do, I will not, &c. \n\nlawful . . . brought under the power--The Greek words are from the same root, whence there is a play on the words: All things are in my power, but I will not be brought under the power of any of them (the \"all things\"). He who commits \"fornication,\" steps aside from his own legitimate power or liberty, and is \"brought under the power\" of an harlot (Co1 6:15; compare Co1 7:4). The \"power\" ought to be in the hands of the believer, not in the things which he uses [BENGEL]; else his liberty is forfeited; he ceases to be his own master (Joh 8:34-36; Gal 5:13; Pe1 2:16; Pe2 2:19). Unlawful things ruin thousands; \"lawful\" things (unlawfully used), ten thousands.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":13,"content":["The argument drawn from the indifference of meats (Co1 8:8; Rom 14:14, Rom 14:17; compare Mar 7:18; Col 2:20-22) to that of fornication does not hold good. Meats doubtless are indifferent, since both they and the \"belly\" for which they are created are to be \"destroyed\" in the future state. But \"the body is not (created) for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body\" (as its Redeemer, who hath Himself assumed the body): \"And God hath raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us\" (that is our bodies): therefore the \"body\" is not, like the \"belly,\" after having served a temporary use, to be destroyed: Now \"he that committeth fornication, sinneth against his own body\" (Co1 6:18). Therefore fornication is not indifferent, since it is a sin against one's own body, which, like the Lord for whom it is created, is not to be destroyed, but to be raised to eternal existence. Thus Paul gives here the germ of the three subjects handled in subsequent sections: (1) The relation between the sexes. (2) The question of meats offered to idols. (3) The resurrection of the body. \n\nshall destroy--at the Lord's coming to change the natural bodies of believers into spiritual bodies (Co1 15:44, Co1 15:52). There is a real essence underlying the superficial phenomena of the present temporary organization of the body, and this essential germ, when all the particles are scattered, involves the future resurrection of the body incorruptible.\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":14,"content":["(Rom 8:11). \n\nraised up--rather, \"raised,\" to distinguish it from \"will raise up us\"; the Greek of the latter being a compound, the former a simple verb. Believers shall be raised up out of the rest of the dead (see on Phi 3:11); the first resurrection (Rev 20:5). \n\nus--Here he speaks of the possibility of his being found in the grave when Christ comes; elsewhere, of his being possibly found alive (Th1 4:17). In either event, the Lord's coming rather than death is the great object of the Christian's expectation (Rom 8:19).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":15,"content":["Resuming the thought in Co1 6:13, \"the body is for the Lord\" (Co1 12:27; Eph 4:12, Eph 4:15-16; Eph 5:30). \n\nshall I then--such being the case. \n\ntake--spontaneously alienating them from Christ. For they cannot be at the same time \"the members of an harlot,\" and \"of Christ\" [BENGEL]. It is a fact no less certain than mysterious, that moral and spiritual ruin is caused by such sins; which human wisdom (when untaught by revelation) held to be actions as blameless as eating and drinking [CONYBEARE and HOWSON].\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":16,"content":["Justification of his having called fornicators \"members of an harlot\" (Co1 6:15). \n\njoined--by carnal intercourse; literally, \"cemented to\": cleaving to. \n\none body--with her. \n\nsaith he--God speaking by Adam (Gen 2:24; Mat 19:5). \"He which made them at the beginning said,\" &c. (Eph 5:31).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":17,"content":["one spirit--with Him. In the case of union with a harlot, the fornicator becomes one \"body\" with her (not one \"spirit,\" for the spirit which is normally the organ of the Holy Spirit in man, is in the carnal so overlaid with what is sensual that it is ignored altogether). But the believer not only has his body sanctified by union with Christ's body, but also becomes \"one spirit\" with Him (Joh 15:1-7; Joh 17:21; Pe2 1:4; compare Eph 5:23-32; Joh 3:6).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":18,"content":["Flee--The only safety in such temptations is flight (Gen 39:12; Job 31:1). \n\nEvery sin--The Greek is forcible. \"Every sin whatsoever that a man doeth.\" Every other sin; even gluttony, drunkenness, and self-murder are \"without,\" that is, comparatively external to the body (Mar 7:18; compare Pro 6:30-32). He certainly injures, but he does not alienate the body itself; the sin is not terminated in the body; he rather sins against the perishing accidents of the body (as the \"belly,\" and the body's present temporary organization), and against the soul than against the body in its permanent essence, designed \"for the Lord.\" \"But\" the fornicator alienates that body which is the Lord's, and makes it one with a harlot's body, and so \"sinneth against his own body,\" that is, against the verity and nature of his body; not a mere effect on the body from without, but a contradiction of the truth of the body, wrought within itself [ALFORD].\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":19,"content":["What? know ye not? &c.--Proof that \"he that fornicates sinneth against his own body\" (Co1 6:18). \n\nyour body--not \"bodies.\" As in Co1 3:17, he represented the whole company of believers (souls and bodies), that is, the Church, as \"the temple of God,\" the Spirit; so here, the body of each individual of the Church is viewed as the ideal \"temple of the Holy Ghost.\" So Joh 17:23, which proves that not only the Church, but also each member of it, is \"the temple of the Holy Ghost.\" Still though many the several members form one temple, the whole collectively being that which each is in miniature individually. Just as the Jews had one temple only, so in the fullest sense all Christian churches and individual believers form one temple only. Thus \"YOUR [plural] body\" is distinguished here from \"HIS OWN [particular or individual] body\" (Co1 6:18). In sinning against the latter, the fornicator sins against \"your (ideal) body,\" that of \"Christ,\" whose \"members your bodies\" are (Co1 6:15). In this consists the sin of fornication, that it is a sacrilegious desecration of God's temple to profane uses. The unseen, but much more efficient, Spirit of God in the spiritual temple now takes the place of the visible Shekinah in the old material temple. The whole man is the temple; the soul is the inmost shrine; the understanding and heart, the holy place; and the body, the porch and exterior of the edifice. Chastity is the guardian of the temple to prevent anything unclean entering which might provoke the indwelling God to abandon it as defiled [TERTULLIAN, On the Apparel of Women]. None but God can claim a temple; here the Holy Ghost is assigned one; therefore the Holy Ghost is God. \n\nnot your own--The fornicator treats his body as if it were \"his own,\" to give to a harlot if he pleases (Co1 6:18; compare Co1 6:20). But we have no right to alienate our body which is the Lord's. In ancient servitude the person of the servant was wholly the property of the master, not his own. Purchase was one of the ways of acquiring a slave. Man has sold himself to sin (Kg1 21:20; Rom 7:14). Christ buys him to Himself, to serve Him (Rom 6:16-22).\n\n"]},{"type":"verse","number":20,"content":["bought with a price--Therefore Christ's blood is strictly a ransom paid to God's justice by the love of God in Christ for our redemption (Mat 20:28; Act 20:28; Gal 3:13; Heb 9:12; Pe1 1:18-19; Pe2 2:1; Rev 5:9). While He thus took off our obligation to punishment, He laid upon us a new obligation to obedience (Co1 7:22-23). If we accept Him as our Prophet to reveal God to us, and our Priest to atone for us, we must also accept Him as our King to rule over us as wholly His, presenting every token of our fealty (Isa 26:13). \n\nin your body--as \"in\" a temple (compare Joh 13:32; Rom 12:1; Phi 1:20). \n\nand in your spirit, which are God's--not in the oldest manuscripts and versions, and not needed for the sense, as the context refers mainly to the \"body\" (Co1 6:16, Co1 6:18-19). The \"spirit\" is incidentally mentioned in Co1 6:17, which perhaps gave rise to the interpolation, at first written in the Margin, afterwards inserted in the text.\n\n\n\n\nNext: 1 Corinthians Chapter 7\n\n"]}],"introduction":"LITIGATION OF CHRISTIANS IN HEATHEN COURTS CENSURED: ITS VERY EXISTENCE BETRAYS A WRONG SPIRIT: BETTER TO BEAR WRONG NOW, AND HEREAFTER THE DOERS OF WRONG SHALL BE SHUT OUT OF HEAVEN. (Co1 6:1-11)\n\nDare--This word implies treason against Christian brotherhood [BENGEL]. \n\nbefore the unjust--The Gentile judges are here so termed by an epithet appropriate to the subject in question, namely, one concerning justice. Though all Gentiles were not altogether unjust, yet in the highest view of justice which has regard to God as the Supreme Judge, they are so: Christians, on the other hand, as regarding God as the only Fountain of justice, should not expect justice from them. \n\nbefore . . . saints--The Jews abroad were permitted to refer their disputes to Jewish arbitrators [JOSEPHUS, Antiquities, 14.10,17]. So the Christians were allowed to have Christian arbitrators.\n\n"},"thisChapterLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/1CO/6.json","thisChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"1CO","chapter":6},"nextChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/1CO/7.json","nextChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"1CO","chapter":7},"previousChapterApiLink":"/api/c/jamieson-fausset-brown/1CO/5.json","previousChapterReference":{"commentaryId":"jamieson-fausset-brown","book":"1CO","chapter":5},"numberOfVerses":18}