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1Cor.5:1. There is a true rumor that fornication has appeared among you, and, moreover, such fornication as is not heard even among the pagans, that someone has his father’s wife instead of a wife. “There is no sense of wandering in you.” The Apostle made it sufficiently clear to see the excess of indecency, for, he says, it should not even be audible; It also shows the greatness of lawlessness. “And such is fornication, as it is not commonly called.” What even those trained in demonic teachings do not dare to do, you have dared to do. “For no one is afraid of having a wife.” And one should marvel at the apostolic wisdom in this. He did not say “stepmother,” because this name expresses some kind of hostility, but “the father’s wife,” that is, taking the place of the mother, who was united with the father after his own mother, who became for the parent the same as the one who gave birth to him. Then, leaving the fornicator, he pronounces an accusation against those who belong to his group. 1 Cor.5:2. And you became proud, instead of crying, so that the one who did such a thing would be removed from among you. “And you will become proud.” They began to think highly of themselves, as having a learned mentor. “And no more than a poster, let him who has done this deed be removed from among you.” Does not give conflicting laws; didn’t say: “Why weren’t they expelled?” For above he forbade judging teachers; but why don’t you “plakast”, begging God to deliver you from such an infection? 1 Cor.5:3. And I, absent in body, but present with you in spirit, have already decided, as if being with you: who did such a thing. “Even if I am not wretched with you in body, I am still alive in spirit, I have already been judged as if I were there.” Let none of you hold any other opinion, because I immediately pronounce the sentence: “Whoever did this”: again showed the excessiveness of the crime. 1 Cor.5:4. In your assembly in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, together with my spirit, by the power of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Cor.5:5. Deliver to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. “In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is gathered unto you and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The apostle created a judgment seat that made him tremble. First he gathered everyone in the name of the Lord; then he introduced himself by the grace of the Spirit and showed that the Master Himself presides; pronounces a sentence, puts the doer to death and determines that only the body should be punished, because in the punishment itself he prepares healing medicine for the soul. The Apostle here calls the spirit not the soul, but the gift. All this, he says, I do so that this gift may be preserved in him until the coming of our Savior. And from this we learn that the devil attacks those who are separated and excommunicated from the body of the Church, finding them deprived of grace. Having thus cut off the fornicator, the Apostle explains the reason why this was done. 1 Cor.5:6. You have nothing to boast about. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 1 Cor.5:7. Cleanse out therefore the old leaven, that you may be new lump, since you are unleavened, for our Passover, Christ, was sacrificed for us. “Your praise is not good. Don’t you know how little kvass leaves the whole mixture? Cleanse away the old kvass, so that you may be a new mixture, just as you are without leaven.” The Apostle calls “old kvass” the one that was in them before baptism, and commands them to be cleansed of it, to be “unleavened” bread, not having any remnants of this kvass in themselves; and since he mentioned “unleavened” bread, and the Jews ate them during Passover, he added, in connection with the speech: “For our Passover was devoured for us by Christ.” And we have the Lamb, who took upon himself what was sacrificed for us. 1 Cor.5:8. Therefore let us celebrate, not with old leaven, not with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of purity and truth. “In the same way, let us celebrate not in the brew of alcohol, nor in the brew of malice and wickedness, but in the unleavened purity and truth.” The Apostle adheres to the same figurative image of speech and shows what he called “kvass” and what he called “no leaven.” 1 Corinthians 5:9. I wrote to you in a letter - do not associate with fornicators. “The letters are in the message to you, do not mix with the fornicator”; not in another, but in the same message, for a little higher he said: “Don’t you know how little kvass leavens all the mixture?” Then he explains what he wrote about: 1 Cor.5:10. However, not in general with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, for otherwise you would have to come out of this world. “And not everyone is a fornicator of this world, or a covetous person, or a predator, or an idolater: for by nature they must come out of this world.” I do not legislate anything difficult for you, for I do not command you to completely separate yourself from those who are alien to the faith. This would mean sending you to some other world. 1 Corinthians 5:11. But I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who, while calling himself a brother, remains a fornicator, or a covetous person, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a predator; You can’t even eat with someone like that. “Now the writings will not interfere with you,” that is, he wrote to you in the following sense: “If a certain brother is called a fornicator, or a covetous, or an idolater, or a troublemaker, or a drunkard, or a predator, with such one is below the table.” If one should not have fellowship with such people in ordinary food, then much less in Mysterious and Divine food. 1 Cor.5:12. For why should I judge those who are external? Are you not judging the internal ones? “Why are we and external judges?” I have no power over them. “Are you not judging the internal ones?” 1 Cor.5:13. God judges those who are outside. Therefore, cast out the wicked from among you. “But God judges those who are outside.” Those we submit to the judgment of God, but we are commanded to judge the internal ones. “And remove the evil from you, Samech.” The Apostle cited the testimony of Moses (Deut. 17:7), confirming his word with the Divine Law. And since he also added the covetous to the fornicators, then, of necessity, he offers teaching about this too. You might be interested in: