Exposition on 1 Corinthians 4.1–6.20 (Exposition on 1 Corinthians)

Pelagius

Exposition on 1 Corinthians 4.1–6.20

Pelagius · Exposition on 1 Corinthians · ca. 405–410 · Rome · 51 passages

Latin text: Souter, TS 9.2 (Latin text: A. Souter (Texts and Studies 9.2, 1926); OCR of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam scan, read by Tesseract).English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

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4.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146

Ita nos existimet homo. [Omnis homo.] Ut ministros Christi et dispensatores mysteriorum dei . Non ut aequales Christo.

“Let a man so regard us.” “As ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.” Not as equals of Christ.

1 Cor 4:1 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Apostles are Christ's ministers, not his equals.

Souter brackets “Omnis homo” (“every man”); left out.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146

Hic iam quaeritur inter dispensatores, ut fidelis quis inueniatur? Interrogantis uox est : id est : iam [hie] uos putatis [posse] conscientias iudicare?

“Here, now, is it asked among stewards that a man be found faithful?” It is the voice of one asking a question: that is, do you now think you are able to judge consciences?

1 Cor 4:2 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul asks whether they presume to judge consciences.

Souter brackets “hic” and “posse”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Hie mm → Hic iam.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146

Mihi autem pro minimo est, ut a uobis iudice[tu\r aut ab humano die. Humanum iudicium nullius duco momenti, in quo saepe ueritas et iustitia frustratur : ‘diem5 enim ‘hominis non concupiui’ Hieremias ait. Sed neque me ipsum iudico. Ego, qui conscientiam meam optime noui, nihil esse me iudico.

“But to me it is a very small thing to be judged by you or by a human day.” I count human judgment of no weight; truth and justice are often frustrated in it: for “I have not desired the day of man,” says Jeremiah. “But I do not even judge myself.” I, who know my conscience best, judge myself to be nothing.

1 Cor 4:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 17:16 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul sets no value on human judgment and counts himself nothing.

Jer 17:16.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nulhus → nullius.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146

Nihil enim mihi conscius sum. Unde super omnes homines debeam gloriari. si hoc Paulus dicit, quid a nobis dici debeat cogitandum est. Sed non in hoc iustificatus sum: qui autem iudicat me dominus est. In quo me quidam laudant, quia ita quisque aliena laude non iustificatur, ut [nec] maculatur infamia. uni cuique enim aput deum quod est, non quod dicitur, inputatur.

“For I am conscious of nothing against myself.” For which I would have reason to glory above all men. If Paul says this, we must consider what ought to be said by us. “But I am not justified by this; he who judges me is the Lord.” In those matters for which some praise me; because just as no one is justified by another's praise, so [neither] is he stained by ill repute: for with God each one is credited with what is, not with what is said.

1 Cor 4:4 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Neither praise nor slander counts with God, who judges what is real.

Souter brackets “nec” (“neither”), kept in brackets for sense.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146–147

Itaque nolite ante tempus [quid] iudicate, donec ueniat dominus, qui inluminabit occulta tenebrarum et manifestabit consilia cordium. ‘Homo enim uidet in facie, deus in corde.’ Et tunc laus erit uni cuique a deo. Ille uere laudabilis est qui dei testimonio laudatur, aput quem omnia occulta et inuis[ibili]a sunt cognita.

“Therefore do not judge before the time, until the Lord comes, who will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and make manifest the counsels of hearts.” For “man sees the face, God the heart.” “And then each one will have praise from God.” He is truly praiseworthy who is praised by the testimony of God, to whom all hidden and invisible things are known.

1 Cor 4:5 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Sam 16:7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Only God, who sees the heart, can rightly praise.

Souter brackets “quid”; left out. 1 Sam 16:7.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slips): indicate, donee uenial → iudicate, donec ueniat.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:146–147; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:147

Haec autem , fratres , transfiguraui in me et Apollo propter uos, ut in nobis discatis ne supra quam scriptum est unus pro uno infletur aduersus alterum. Ut a nobis humilitatis sumatis exemplum, ne supra disciplinam scripturae audeat unus quisque aduersus alterum pro alio inflari doctore, malo contentionis euersus.

“These things, brothers, I have applied figuratively to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us that no one be puffed up for one against another beyond what is written.” That you may take an example of humility from us, so that no one, overthrown by the evil of contention, may dare beyond the discipline of Scripture to be puffed up against another on behalf of some other teacher.

1 Cor 4:6 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul and Apollos are examples of humility against party pride.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:147; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:147

Quis enim te discernit? Hinc ad ipsos inflatos per eloquentiam uerba conuertit: quis te discernit cuius momenti sis? Quid , ait, habes quod non aecepisti ? Quid enim boni ex temet ipso habes quod a nullo didiceris uel dei dono [minime] consecutus sis? Quod si aecepisti , quid gloriaris quasi non acceperis? Quasi in proprio gloriaris.

“For who distinguishes you?” From here he turns his words to the very people puffed up through eloquence: who judges of what weight you are? “What do you have,” he says, “that you did not receive?” For what good do you have from yourself, which you have not learned from someone or obtained by God's gift? “And if you received it, why do you glory as if you had not received it?” As if you were glorying in something of your own.

1 Cor 4:7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Whatever good the Corinthians have was learned or given; it gives no ground for boasting.

Souter brackets “minime”; left out. Pelagius's comment on this verse (good “learned from someone or obtained by God's gift”) is translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): ait9 → ait,.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:147; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:147–148

Iam saturati estis , [iam] diuites facti estis! Hoc increpatiuo modo legendum uel pronuntiandum est. Sine nobis regnatis . In nullo nostri indigentes. Et utinam regn[ar]etisy ut et nos uobiscum regn[ar]emus! [Utinam non essetis falsa gloriatione decepti! forsitan simul regnaremus.]

“Already you are filled, already you have become rich!” This is to be read or spoken as a rebuke. “Without us you reign.” Needing us in nothing. “And would that you did reign, so that we too might reign with you!”

1 Cor 4:8 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul ironically rebukes their self-sufficiency.

Souter brackets “iam” and a closing comment (“Would that you were not deceived by false boasting! Perhaps we would reign together”); left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): lam saturati → Iam saturati.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:147–148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:148

Puto enim nos deus apostolos nouissimos ostendit quasi morti destinatos. Nos omnium ultimos ad gentes tamquam ad mortem direxit. Qu\on\ia\m\ spectaculum facti sumus \huic] mundo et angelis et hominibus . Omnes nostras publice spectant iniurias, siue ueri angeli et homines, siue sancti homines et peccatores. Nos stulti propter Christum , uos autem prudentes in Christo : nos infirmi, uos autem fortes: uos nobiles, nos autem ignobiles. Nos tamquam stulti propter Christum omnia sustinemus; uos autem ita uultis esse Christiani, ut [et] prudentiam saeculi teneatis : nos infirmi, quia uicem reddere nolumus ; uos autem reddendo fortes esse uos gloriamini : nos nihil [h]abentes, uoluntaria paupertate deiecti; uos uobis etiam nobilitatem terreni generis uindicatis.

“For I think God has displayed us apostles as last, as men condemned to death.” He sent us, the last of all, to the Gentiles as though to death. “Because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.” All look publicly upon the injuries done to us, whether true angels and men, or holy men and sinners. [v. 10] “We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are noble, but we are without honour.” We endure all things as fools for Christ's sake; but you want to be Christians in such a way as to keep the prudence of the world as well. We are weak, because we refuse to pay back in kind; but you boast that you are strong by paying back. We have nothing, brought low by voluntary poverty; you even claim for yourselves the nobility of an earthly family.

1 Cor 4:9–10 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The apostles suffer as fools and poor; the Corinthians keep worldly prudence, revenge and pride of birth.

The numeral of verse 10 was unreadable; the verse begins at [v. 10].
Souter brackets “huic” and “et”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray line number): io Nos tamquam → Nos tamquam; injirmiy → infirmi,.

Topics: Persecution

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:148

TJsque in hanc horam et esurimus et sitimus et nudi sumus et colaphizamur. Ab initio praedicationis nostrae usque in praesens tempus. Et instabiles sumus. Non stamus in sedibus certis, ubique euangelii necessitate iactamur.

“To this very hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and are beaten.” From the beginning of our preaching up to the present time. “And we have no fixed place.” We do not stay in settled homes; everywhere we are tossed about by the needs of the gospel.

1 Cor 4:11 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The apostles have suffered and wandered from the start.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): su?nus → sumus; colajizamur → colaphizamur.

Topics: Persecution

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:148; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:148–149

Et laboramus operantes manibus nostris. Sic tamen operabantur ut doctrinae officium magis implerent. [Maledidmur et benedidmus ].

“And we labour, working with our own hands.” Yet they worked in such a way as rather to fulfil the duty of teaching.

1 Cor 4:12 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The apostles worked with their hands without neglecting teaching.

Souter brackets the rest of the lemma (“we are cursed and we bless”); left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split words): labor amus oper antes → laboramus operantes.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:148–149; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149

Blasphemamur et obsecramus. Rogamus deum pro his qui nos blasphemant. Persecutionem patimur et sustinemus. tamquam purgamentum huius mundi facti sumus. Sicut scriptum est: ‘iustus inmundus est aput malos.’ Omnium peripsema usque athuc. Omnium humillimi, atque subiecti.

“We are blasphemed and we entreat.” We pray to God for those who blaspheme us. “We suffer persecution and endure it. We have become like the refuse of this world.” As it is written: “The righteous man is unclean among the wicked.” “The offscouring of all, even until now.” The lowliest of all, and subject to all.

1 Cor 4:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Prov 29:27 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The apostles pray for their persecutors and are counted the lowest of all.

Prov 29:27.

Topics: Persecution

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149

Non ut confundam uos haec scribo , sed ut filios meos carissimos moneo. Poterant confundi de sua gloria, si eos non releuaret: non enim ruborem illorum cupiebat, sed profectum. Si enim decem milia pedagogorum habeatis in Christo , sed non multos patres. Omnes qui [ab alio] iam natis ministrant, patres dici non possunt. Nam in Christo Iesu per euangelium ego uos genui . In nouam uitam, me primum praedicante, reformatos uos esse meministis.

“I do not write these things to shame you, but I admonish you as my dearest sons.” They could have been put to shame for their glorying, if he did not lift them up: for he wanted not their blushing but their progress. [v. 15] “For though you have ten thousand tutors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers.” Not all who minister to those already born can be called fathers. “For in Christ Jesus through the gospel I begot you.” You remember that you were re-formed into new life when I first preached.

1 Cor 4:14–15 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul, their father in the gospel, corrects them for their progress.

The numeral of verse 15 was unreadable; the verse begins at [v. 15].
Souter brackets “ab alio” (“by another”); left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; stray numeral and OCR slip): jilios → filios; 16 Si enim decern → Si enim decem.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149

Obsecro ergo uos, imitatores mei estote. Bonorum filiorum est in omnibus bonos imitari parentes.

“I beseech you therefore, be imitators of me.” It belongs to good sons to imitate good parents in all things.

1 Cor 4:16 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Good sons imitate good fathers.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): imitatores md → imitatores mei.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149–150

Ideo misi ad uos Timotheum , qui estfilius meus carissimus etfidelis in domino . Quanto fidelior ceteris, tanto carior cunctis. Qui uos commonefaciet uias meas quae sunt in Christo [Iesu]. Qui uos et meis litteris et suo commoneret exemplo: aliut enim sine alio ita prodesse non poterat. Sicut ubique in omni ecclesia doceo. Quo modo semper [et] ubique meum exemplum cum doctrina concordat.

“For this reason I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dearest and faithful son in the Lord.” The more faithful than the others, the dearer to all. “Who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ.” To remind you both by my letter and by his own example: for the one could not profit as much without the other. “As I teach everywhere in every church.” How my example always and everywhere agrees with my teaching.

1 Cor 4:17 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Timothy will reinforce Paul's letter by example.

Souter brackets “Iesu” and “et”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; line-end hyphen): commonefadet → commonefaciet; con- cordat → concordat.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:149–150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150

Tamquam non uenturus essem ad uos. Hinc incipit causam fornicationis arguere. Sic inflati sunt quidam.

“As though I were not coming to you.” From here he begins to take up the case of sexual immorality. “Some are puffed up in this way.”

1 Cor 4:18 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul turns to the case of sexual immorality.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150

ueniam autem cito \ad uos], si dominus uoluerit. Tam diu aliquis de scientia falsa se iactat, usque quo uer[a]e scientiae praedicator adueniat. Et cognoscam non sermonem eorum qui inflati sunt, sed uirtutem. Examinabo non eloquentiae pompam, sed conuersationis effectum, ubi uirtus fidei et uit[a]e probatur.

“But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills.” A man boasts of false knowledge only until the preacher of true knowledge arrives. “And I will know not the speech of those who are puffed up, but their power.” I will examine not the pomp of eloquence but the effect in conduct, where the power of faith and of life is proved.

1 Cor 4:19 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul will test conduct, not eloquence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Tam din → Tam diu.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150

Nec enim in sermone est regnum dei, sed in uirtute . Hie ostendit[ur] nihil prodesse doctrinam absque iustitiae operibus ei qui non faciat quae facienda persuadet.

“For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.” Here he shows that teaching profits nothing, without works of righteousness, to one who does not do what he urges others to do.

1 Cor 4:20 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Teaching without works of righteousness profits nothing.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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4.21Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150

Quid uultis? in uirga ueniam ad uos , an in caritate et spiritu mansuetudinis? Benignus magister discipulorum correctionem in eorum potestate dimittit, ut, si paenitere uellent, clementissimus consolator adesset, si autem nollent, durus ultor adsisteret peccatorum. [‘in uirga5 enim,] quali uirga Petrus [ad] Ananiam et Sapphiram, et ipse Paulus ad magum.

“What do you want? Shall I come to you with a rod, or in love and a spirit of gentleness?” A kind master leaves the correction of the disciples in their own power: if they were willing to repent, he would be at hand as a most merciful comforter; if they were not, he would stand by as a stern avenger of sins, with such a rod as Peter used against Ananias and Sapphira, and Paul himself against the magician.

1 Cor 4:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 5:1–11 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 13:6–11 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul leaves it to them whether he comes as comforter or punisher.

Souter brackets “‘in uirga’ enim” and “ad”; left out.
Acts 5:1–11; 13:6–11.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray mark): s'piritu → spiritu.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 4.21 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/4-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 5

5.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150

Omnino auditur inter uos fornicatio. Ostendit qua re superiora minatus sit. Et talis fornicatio qualis nec inter gentes, ita ut uxorem patris \ali\quis habeat. In ecclesia, cui uos praeesse uidemini.

“It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you.” He shows why he made the threats above. “And such immorality as is not even among the Gentiles, that someone has his father's wife.” In the church over which you seem to preside.

1 Cor 5:1 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul names the case of a man living with his father's wife.

Souter brackets letters of “aliquis”; no change in sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): jpatris → patris.

Topics: Marriage

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150–151

Et uos inflati estis, et non magis luctum habuistis. Uana scientia inflamini, et curam de his qui pereunt non habe[bi]tis, ut aut corrigant aut ab ecclesia separentur, cum bonos pastores semper [magis] legamus populi deflesse peccata, ut Hieremiam, qui ait: ‘ quis dabit capiti meo aquam, et oculis meis fontem lacrimarum?’ ut ostenderet sibi non affectum doloris, sed lacrimas defecisse. Ut tollatur de medio uestrum qui hoc opus fecit. Siue: Homo qui peccauit tollatur. Siue: Satanus eiciatur, dum non habet per quern operetur.

“And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned.” You are puffed up with vain knowledge, and you have no care for those who are perishing, that they either be corrected or be separated from the church; whereas we read that good shepherds have always lamented the sins of the people, like Jeremiah, who says: “Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes?” to show that it was not the feeling of grief that failed him, but tears. “That he who has done this deed might be taken from your midst.” Either: Let the man who sinned be removed. Or: Let Satan be cast out, since he has no one through whom to work.

1 Cor 5:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 9:1 (8:23 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The church should grieve and either correct or expel the sinner.

Souter brackets “magis”; left out. Jer 9:1 (8:23 LXX).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words run together): mflamini → inflamini; utHieremiam → ut Hieremiam.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:150–151; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:151

Ego quidem , ut absens corpore, praesens autem spiritu , iam iudicaui ut praesens eum qui sic operatus est. Praesentem se esse dicit in spiritu, ne ex solo auditu [absentem] damnare putaretur, secundum illut Helisaei dicentis ad Giezi: ‘ nonne spiritus meus tecum erat in uia?’

“For I, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged, as though present, him who has so acted.” He says that he is present in spirit, so that he might not be thought to condemn on hearsay alone, as in the saying of Elisha to Gehazi: “Was not my spirit with you on the way?”

1 Cor 5:3 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 5:26 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Paul judges as one present in spirit, like Elisha with Gehazi.

Souter brackets “absentem”; left out. 2 Kgs 5:26.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slips; words run together): dbsens cor pore → absens corpore; illutHelisaei dicentisad → illut Helisaei dicentis ad.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:151; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:151

In nomine domini nostri lesu Christi , congregatis uobis et meo spiritu cum uirtute domini [ nostri ] lesu [Christi], Qui pro me erit praesens. Siue: In litterarum mearum auctoritate, per quam domini quoque uirtus adsistet.

“In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you and my spirit are gathered together, with the power of the Lord Jesus,” Who will be present on my behalf. Or: In the authority of my letter, through which the power of the Lord also will be at hand.

1 Cor 5:4 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The Lord's power, or Paul's letter, will be present at the assembly.

Souter brackets “nostri” and “Christi” in the lemma; left out.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:151; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:151–152

[Eum qui talis est] tradere [huius modi] Satanae in interitum carnis. Ut arripiendi ilium corporaliter habeat potestatem, ut, cum uiderit se nec carnis hie nec in futuro spiritus requiem habiturum, de facto paeniteat et saluetur. Siue: Si[c] quisque pro meritis suis de ecclesia pellitur, Satanae traditur potestati, ut, dum caro eius per paenitentiam adflicta quendam interitum patitur, spiritus conseruetur. habet enim consuetudinem scriptura ut hominem in parte totum intellegat. Siue: Ita, quia et hie scripturae mos est ut in came carnalis actus interire, in spiritu uero spiritalis conuersatio salua fieri demonstretur. Ut spiritus saluus sit in die domini [nostri] Iesu [Christi], Quoniam in spiritu[m] Satanas accipere non potest potestatem, [ut] domini iudicio reseruetur.

“to hand over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh.” So that Satan may have power to seize him bodily, so that, when he sees that he will have rest neither of the flesh here nor of the spirit in the future, he may repent of the deed and be saved. Or: Thus whoever is driven from the church for his deserts is handed over to Satan's power, so that, while his flesh, afflicted through penance, suffers a kind of destruction, the spirit may be preserved; for Scripture has the custom of meaning the whole man by a part. Or: Thus, because here too it is the custom of Scripture to show that in the flesh carnal action perishes, while in the spirit spiritual conduct is saved. “So that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.” Since Satan cannot receive power over the spirit, it is reserved for the Lord's judgment.

1 Cor 5:5 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Handing over to Satan afflicts the flesh so that the sinner may repent and his spirit be saved.

Souter brackets “Eum qui talis est”, “huius modi”, “nostri”, “Christi” and “ut”; left out.
Paenitentia is rendered “penance” where it is the church's discipline.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slip and line-end hyphen; OCR slips): interi- turn → interitum; spiritns → spiritus; scriptuia at → scriptura ut; demonsstretur → demonstretur.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:151–152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152

Non bona gloriatio [uestra]: nescitis quia modicum fermentum totam massam corrumpit? Ignoratis quia malo exemplo possunt plurimi interire? sed et per unius delictum in omnem populum Iudaeorum iram dei legimus aduenisse.

“Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven corrupts the whole lump?” Do you not know that very many can perish through a bad example? And indeed we read that through one man's offence the wrath of God came upon the whole people of the Jews.

1 Cor 5:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Josh 7:1 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: One man's sin can corrupt many, as Achan's brought wrath on Israel.

Souter brackets “uestra”; left out. Josh 7.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): gloria tio → gloriatio; nesdtis → nescitis; interne → interire.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152

Expurgate uetus fermentum, ut sitis noua consparsio sicut estis azimi. Nihil in uobis conuersationis pristinae relinquatis, quod sinceritate[m] possit naturae corrumpere. Et enim pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus.

“Purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened.” Leave in yourselves nothing of your former conduct that could corrupt the purity of nature. “For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.”

1 Cor 5:7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Nothing of the old life should remain to corrupt nature's purity.

“The purity of nature” (sinceritas naturae) is translated as written.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152

itaque epulemur , non in fermento uetere, neque in fermento malitiae et nequitiae, sed in azimis sinceritatis et ueritatis. Non figura, sed ueritas. et Iudaei quidem septem diebus azyma comedebant, nos uero semper, si simpliciter et pure uersemur, quia in septem diebus mundus est factus, qui semper in suo ordine reuoluuntur, et cottidie nobis agnus occiditur et pascha cottidie celebramus, si fermentum malitiae et nequitiae non habe[a]mus. quid est enim aliut nisi corruptio naturae fermentum, quod et ipsum prius a naturali dulcedine recedens adulterino acore corruptum est?

“Therefore let us feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” Not figure, but truth. The Jews ate unleavened bread for seven days, but we do so always, if we live simply and purely; for the world was made in seven days, which continually revolve in their order, and daily the Lamb is slain for us and daily we celebrate the Passover, if we have no leaven of malice and wickedness. For what is leaven but the corruption of nature? It too, departing from its natural sweetness, has been corrupted by an adulterated sourness.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

1 Cor 5:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 12:15 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christians keep a perpetual Passover by living purely; leaven is the corruption of nature.

Exod 12:15. The image of leaven as corrupted nature is translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nequitiae9 → nequitiae,.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152

Scripsi uobis in epistola ne commisceamini fornicariis ,

“I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with the sexually immoral,”

1 Cor 5:9 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 5:9.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152–153

non utique fornicariis huius mundi, aut auaris, aut rapacibus, aut idolis seruientibus. Hoc ipsum in hac epistula ita scripsi, non ut a gentibus, sed [ut] ab his qui peccant in ecclesia separemini: sin autem, mori debueratis, quos idcirco praecipue uiuere interim deus uoluit, ut uestra cohabitatione et doctrina proficiant infideles. Alioquin debueratis de hoc mundo exire . Siue ita: sin autem, melius uobis fuerat de hac luce migrasse quam indigere per commonitionem a gentium consortio separari.

“not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy, or robbers, or idolaters.” I wrote this very thing in this letter, not that you should separate yourselves from the Gentiles, but from those who sin in the church; otherwise you would have had to die, you whom God willed to live for the present chiefly for this reason, that unbelievers might profit by your living among them and your teaching. “Otherwise you would have had to go out of this world.” Or thus: otherwise it would have been better for you to depart this life than to need to be told to separate from the company of the Gentiles.

1 Cor 5:10 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Separation is from sinners in the church, not from unbelievers, whom Christians are left in the world to help.

Souter brackets “ut”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): fomicariis huiu8 mundiy → fornicariis huius mundi,; rapaeibus → rapacibus; spruientibus → seruientibus; liac → hac; ab bis → ab his; cobabitatione → cohabitatione; bac luce → hac luce.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:152–153; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153

Nunc autem scripsi uobis non commisceri. Sed hoc est magis quod uobis scripsi, ne talibus coniungamini. Si quis frater nominatur [est] fornicator aut auarus aut idolis seruiens aut maledicus aut ebriosus aut rapax . Non ex sola opinione uitandus est, sed si quis frater solo nomine appellatur, cum fornicator detegatur aut fur, ab hoc separari iubemur, sicut scriptum est: ‘qui se iungit fornicariis, nequam est: putredo et uermes hereditabunt eum.’ Cum eius modi nee cibum [quidem] sumere. Ne[c] communem quidem cibum cum talibus participandum esse concessit.

“But now I have written to you not to associate.” But this is rather what I wrote to you, not to be joined with such people. “If anyone who is called a brother is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or a robber.” He is not to be avoided on mere suspicion; but if anyone is called a brother in name only, when he is found to be sexually immoral or a thief, we are commanded to separate from him, as it is written: “He who joins himself to fornicators is worthless: rottenness and worms will inherit him.” “With such a one not even to take food.” He did not allow even ordinary food to be shared with such people.

1 Cor 5:11 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: A brother proved guilty of grave sin is to be shunned, even at table.

Souter brackets “est”, “quidem” and a letter of “nec”; left out.
Sir 19:2–3.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): boc est → hoc est; f rater → frater; rmledicus → maledicus; opinions → opinione.

Extrabiblical texts: Sir 19:2-3 (Sirach [in RC, EO, ETH canons]; quotation)

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153

Quid enim mihi de his qui foris sunt iudicare? Hoc est, de infidelibus. Nonne de his qui intus sunt uos iudicatis ?

“For what have I to do with judging those outside?” That is, unbelievers. “Do you not judge those who are inside?”

1 Cor 5:12 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The church judges its own, not unbelievers.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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5.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153

nam eos qui foris sunt deus iudicabit . Numquit non uos de his solis qui sunt intra ecclesiam iudicatis? Auferte malum a uobis ipsis. Quo facilius eos possitis docere qui foris sunt.

“For God will judge those outside.” Do you not judge only those who are within the church? “Remove the evil from among yourselves.” So that you may more easily teach those who are outside.

1 Cor 5:13 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: A purified church can better teach outsiders.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 5.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/5-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Chapter 6

6.1Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153–154

Audet aliquis uestrum [aduersus alterum] habens negotium , iudicari aput iniquosy et non aput sanctos? Audet aliquis contra praeceptum domini uenire dicentis: ‘si quis uult tecum iudicio contendere,5 et cetera? notandum quod [aliquando] apostolus in media causa quam agit, quosdam sensus inserat et de latere iactet, quibus explicitis rursum reuertatur ad causam. [‘Iudicari aput iniquos.’ ] Hi[n]c probatur Christianos tunc iudices non fuisse, quia iniqui dicuntur.

“Does any of you, having a matter, dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?” Does anyone dare to go against the command of the Lord, who says, “If anyone wants to go to law with you,” and so on? It should be noted that the apostle, in the middle of the case he is pleading, inserts certain thoughts and throws them in from the side, and once he has set them out he returns again to his case. Hence it is proved that Christians were not judges at that time, because judges are called unrighteous.

1 Cor 6:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:40 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Lawsuits before pagan courts break the Lord's command.

Souter brackets “aduersus alterum”, “aliquando” and a repetition of the lemma; left out.
Matt 5:40.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; line number and apparatus reference (Sir 19:2–3, belonging to 5.11) leaked from the edition): 15 EccIi. xix 2-3 Audet → Audet; nult → uult; dicuntux → dicuntur.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.1 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:153–154; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.2Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154

Aut nescitis quoniam sancti de [hoc] mundo iudicabunt? Quod dominus [re]promisit dicens ad discipulos: ‘sedebitis et uos iudicantes duodecim tribus Istrahel,5 [etiam] omnibus Hoc promittens qui eos fuerint imitati. nam ex ipsis unus periit, cuius loco alius successit cui nihil fuerat repromissum. Paulus quoque et Barnabas apostoli sunt a sancto spiritu ordinati. Et in uobis iudicabitur [hie] mundus. Siue per uos, uel uestro exemplo. Indigni sunt ergo [huiusmodi], qui [etiam] de minimis iudicent.

“Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?” What the Lord promised, saying to the disciples: “You too will sit judging the twelve tribes of Israel,” promising this to all who would imitate them. For one of them perished, and in his place another succeeded to whom nothing had been promised; and Paul and Barnabas too were ordained apostles by the Holy Spirit. “And the world will be judged by you.” Either through you, or by your example. Are such people then unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

1 Cor 6:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 19:28 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 1:26 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 13:2 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Christ's promise of judging extends to all who imitate the apostles.

Souter brackets “hoc”, “re-”, “etiam”, “hic”, “huiusmodi”; left out.
Matt 19:28; Acts 1:26; 13:2.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nesdtis → nescitis.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.2 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.3Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154

nescitis quia iudicabimus angelos? [quanto magis saecularia?] Ergo indigni sunt de rebus exiguis iudicare, qui et mundum totum et angelos iudicabunt. illos angelos qui, cum carnem non habuerint, peccare uoluerunt, hi iudicabunt, qui in carne sancti esse uoluerunt.

“Do you not know that we shall judge angels?” So they are unworthy to judge petty matters who will judge both the whole world and angels. Those angels who, though they had no flesh, chose to sin will be judged by those who chose to be holy in the flesh.

1 Cor 6:3 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Saints holy in the flesh will judge the angels who sinned.

Souter brackets the end of the lemma (“how much more matters of this life?”); left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): nesdtis → nescitis; camem → carnem.

Topics: Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.3 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.4Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154

Saecularia igitur iudicia si habueritis. Quae de rebus saeculi oriuntur. Contem[j]tibiles qui sunt in ecclesia , illos constituite ad iudicandum. Possunt de his etiam illi, qui minimi sunt [in ecclesia], iudicare.

“If then you have worldly cases.” Which arise from the affairs of this world. “Appoint those who are contemptible in the church to judge.” Even those who are least can judge these matters.

1 Cor 6:4 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Even the least in the church can decide worldly disputes.

Souter brackets “in ecclesia”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): iudida → iudicia.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.4 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.5Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154–155

Ad uerecundiam uestram dico . sic non est inter uos sapiens quisquam, qui possit iudicare inter fratres . Erubescere debetis eo quod nemo sit inter uos tam sapiens qui nouerit causas inter fratres discernere, et non necesse sit publice litigare.

“I say this to your shame. Is there not among you anyone wise, who can judge between brothers?” You ought to blush that there is no one among you so wise as to know how to decide cases between brothers, so that there is no need to go to law in public.

1 Cor 6:5 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: It is shameful that no one can settle disputes among them.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): indicate → iudicare; quis quam → quisquam.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.5 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:154–155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155

Sed frater cum fratre iudicio contendit , et hoc aput infideles. Duplex peccatum est, [et] quod iudicio contenditis, et quia aput infideles uos ad iurgia prouocatis.

“But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers.” It is a double sin: that you go to law, and that you provoke one another to quarrels before unbelievers.

1 Cor 6:6 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Suing a brother before pagans is a double sin.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word): f rater → frater.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.6 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155

Iam quidem omnino delictum est in uobis. Iam hoc solum delictum est, quod contra praeceptum facitis Christi. Quod iudicia habetis inter uos . Qui semper pacem habere deberetis, etiam cum rerum temporalium detrimento seruatam. Quare non magis iniuriam accepistis ? quare non magis fraudem patimini?

“Already it is altogether a fault among you.” Already this alone is a fault, that you act against the command of Christ. “That you have lawsuits among you.” You who ought always to keep peace, even at the loss of temporal things. “Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather suffer fraud?”

1 Cor 6:7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Peace should be kept even at the cost of property.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): lam quidem → Iam quidem; indicia hdbetis → iudicia habetis.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.7 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.8Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155

sed uos fraudatis et iniuriam facitis . Cum inlata[m] secundum euangelii praeceptum et domini exemplum patienter sustinere deberetis, uos e contrario non solum non suffertis, sed etiam non facientibus inrogatis. Et hoc fratribus. Quod nec inimicis reddere deberetis, fratribus non timetis inferre.

“But you yourselves defraud and do wrong.” When you ought to endure patiently the wrong done to you, according to the gospel's command and the Lord's example, you on the contrary not only do not bear it, but even inflict it on those who do you none. “And this to brothers.” What you ought not to pay back even to enemies, you are not afraid to inflict on brothers.

1 Cor 6:8 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Instead of bearing wrongs, they inflict them on brothers.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words run together): hocfratribus → hoc fratribus; mferre → inferre.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.8 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.9Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155

An nescitis quoniam iniqui regnum dei non possidebunt? nolite errare: neque fornicarii, neque idoli[s] seruientes , neque adulteri, neque molles, neque masculorum concubitores,

“Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not possess the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor men who lie with males,”

1 Cor 6:9 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Lemma of 1 Cor 6:9.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word): possidehunt → possidebunt; err are → errare; molleSy → molles,.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.9 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.10Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155–156

neque fures , neque auari , neque ebriosi , neque maledici , neque rapaces regnum dei possidebunt . Nolite errare, putantes uobis solam fidem sufficere ad salutem, cum omne peccatum permanens excludat a regno, sicut [et] ad Galatas ait: ‘manifesta sunt opera carnis, quae sunt fornicatio, inmunditia, e[t] contentiones, irae, et his similia, quae praedico uobis, [sicut et praedixi,] quoniam qui talia agunt, regnum dei non consequentur.5 ideo autem addidit: ‘et his similia/ ne quis negaret praeter haec alia esse peccata quae regnum dei prohiberent intrari.

“nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor robbers will possess the kingdom of God.” Do not be deceived, thinking that faith alone is enough for your salvation, since every sin that persists shuts one out of the kingdom, as he also says to the Galatians: “The works of the flesh are manifest, which are sexual immorality, impurity, strifes, angers, and things like these, of which I tell you beforehand that those who do such things will not obtain the kingdom of God.” He added “and things like these” so that no one would deny that there are other sins besides these which prevent entry into the kingdom of God.

1 Cor 6:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 5:19–21 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Faith alone does not save one who persists in sin.

Souter brackets “et”, a letter of “et” and “sicut et praedixi”; left out. Pelagius's remark on “faith alone” is translated as written.
Gal 5:19–21.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): consequents → consequentur.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.10 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:155–156; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.11Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:156

Et haec quidem fuistis. Nolite de praeteritis timere peccatis, tantum ne post baptismum delinquatis : aut, qui, ut adsolet, praeuentus fuerit, ad paenitentiam conuertatur. Sed abluti estis, sed sanctificati estis , [sed iustificati estis ] in nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi et in spiritu dei nostri . Abluti in nomine Christi; sanctificati per spiritum dei.

“And such indeed you were.” Do not fear for past sins; only do not sin after baptism; or, if anyone has been overtaken, as happens, let him turn to repentance. “But you were washed, you were sanctified, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” Washed in the name of Christ; sanctified by the Spirit of God.

1 Cor 6:11 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 6:1 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Baptism washes past sins; later sins call for repentance.

Souter brackets “sed iustificati estis” (“you were justified”) in the lemma; left out.
Gal 6:1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; words run together): quidemfuistis → quidem fuistis; sanctijicati → sanctificati; sjnritu → spiritu.

Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.11 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:156; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.12Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:156

Omnia mihi licent, sed non omnia utilia [sunt], Qui[a] de fornicatione tractabat, uoluit gulae intemperantiam materiam fornicationis ostendere simul atque destruere. Omnia mihi licent , sed ego sub nullius redigar potestate . Licet nobis manducare et bibere, sed, si nimium uentri subditi fuerimus, ipsum licitum trahet nos ad inlicitum, hoc est ad fornicationem. ita et de omnibus intellegendum quae, cum peccata non sint, occasiones [tamen] possunt capere delictorum.

“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are expedient.” Since he was dealing with sexual immorality, he wanted to show that intemperance of the gullet is the fuel of immorality, and at the same time to destroy it. “All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of anything.” We may eat and drink, but if we are too much subject to the belly, the lawful thing itself will draw us to the unlawful, that is, to sexual immorality. So too must be understood all things which, though they are not sins, can become occasions of offences.

1 Cor 6:12 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Gluttony, though lawful in itself, leads to sexual immorality.

Souter brackets “sunt”, a letter of “quia” and “tamen”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): fomicatione → fornicatione; fornicatioms → fornicationis.

Topics: Ethics, Fasting

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.12 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:156; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.13Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:156–157

Esca uentri , et uenter escis: deus autem et haec et hunc destruet. Et haec duo, id est escam et uentrem, et hominem his subditum ac uoluptatibus seruientem. Corpus autem non fornicatio[ni] , sed domino , et dominus corpori . Non fornicationi, sed domino exhibeatur, et dominus corpori copulabitur. deus enim nobiscum est quam diu fuerimus cum illo: si [de]reliquerimus eum, et ille [de] relinquet nos.

“Food for the belly and the belly for food; but God will destroy both it and them.” Both these two, that is, food and the belly, and the man who is subject to them and serves pleasures. “But the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.” Let it be offered not to immorality but to the Lord, and the Lord will be joined to the body. For God is with us as long as we are with him; if we forsake him, he too will forsake us.

1 Cor 6:13 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Chr 15:2 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The body belongs to the Lord, who stays with those who stay with him.

2 Chr 15:2.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): uoluptatibua → uoluptatibus.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.13 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:156–157; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.14Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157

Deus uero qui suscitauit dominum nostrum , et nos quoque suscitabit per uirtutem suam . Qua caput nostrum suscitauit, si tamen eius membra per sanctitatem esse mereamur. [An] nescitis quoniam corpora uestra membra Christi sunt ? Omnis ecclesia corpus Christi est, singuli autem membra. Tollens ergo membra Christi . Ante tollit Christi membra, qui facturus est meretricis; id est, abscidit se a corpore Christi. Faciam membra meretricis? absit! Non dixit ‘fornicatoris/ ut ostenderet eum eiusdem [et] criminis esse et nominis cuius ilia [est] : aput homines enim minus uidetur uiri quam mulieris admissum.

“And God, who raised our Lord, will also raise us by his power.” By which he raised our head, if indeed we are found worthy, through holiness, to be his members. [v. 15] “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?” The whole church is the body of Christ, and individuals are its members. “Shall I then take the members of Christ?” He who is going to make them members of a prostitute first takes away the members of Christ; that is, he cuts himself off from the body of Christ. “Shall I make them members of a prostitute? Far from it!” He did not say “of a fornicator”, to show that the man is guilty of the same crime and bears the same name as she: for among men the offence seems less in a man than in a woman.

1 Cor 6:14–15 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Union with a prostitute cuts a man off from Christ's body; his guilt equals hers.

The numeral of verse 15 was unreadable; the verse begins at [v. 15].
Souter brackets “An”, “et” and “est”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips; stray numeral and OCR slip): susdtauit → suscitauit; suscztabit → suscitabit; 16 [An] nesdtis → [An] nescitis; Tottens → Tollens; Fadam membra meretrids → Faciam membra meretricis.

Topics: Ethics, Eschatology

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.14 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.16Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157

[An] nesdtis quoniam qui inhaeret meretrici, corporis unitate conectitur, sicut in Genesi dicit? erunt enim, inquit , duo in carne una . Quo modo cum uxore licite, ita et inlicite cum meretrice una caro efficitur per amorem.

“Do you not know that he who clings to a prostitute is joined to her in unity of body, as he says in Genesis? For the two, he says, will be in one flesh.” Just as one becomes one flesh with a wife lawfully, so too unlawfully with a prostitute, through desire.

1 Cor 6:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 2:24 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Union with a prostitute makes one flesh, as marriage does.

Souter brackets “An”; left out. Gen 2:24.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip; OCR slips): meretrid → meretrici; conectitury → conectitur,; Gened didt → Genesi dicit; came una → carne una.

Topics: Marriage, Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.16 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Souter's Latin (1926; our OCR of the VU Amsterdam scan); no public-domain English exists, so the translation was re-read against the Latin.

6.17Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157

Qui autem adhaeret domino , unus spiritus est . Quo modo per carnis opera [caro] fit, ita et per opera [spiritus] dei spiritus efficitur.

“But he who clings to the Lord is one spirit.” Just as through the works of the flesh one becomes flesh, so through the works of God one becomes spirit.

1 Cor 6:17 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Works of the flesh make one flesh; God's works make one spirit.

Souter brackets “caro” and “spiritus”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): camis → carnis.

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.17 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.18Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157–158

Fugite fornicatione[m] . Cuius crimen uidetis esse grauissimum. Omne peccatum quodcumque fecerit homo , extra corpus est: qui autem fornicatur , in corpus suum peccat. Omne peccatum potest et ab uno committi, qui membrum dici potest, non tamen corpus ; in fornicatione aut[em] duo pereunt, et iam corpus [est]. [grauius] ergo malum est in quo duae animae moriuntur. grauare uult fornicationis causam, quae illis per consuetudinem leuissima uidebatur.

“Flee sexual immorality.” Whose crime you see to be most grave. “Every sin that a man commits is outside the body; but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.” Every other sin can be committed by one person, who can be called a member but not a body; but in sexual immorality two perish, and now it is a body. It is therefore an evil in which two souls die. He wants to make the case of immorality weigh more heavily, since through habit it seemed to them very light.

1 Cor 6:18 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Sexual immorality is graver because two perish together.

Souter brackets letters of “autem”, “est” and “grauius”; left out.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): fomicatione[m] → fornicatione[m].

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.18 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:157–158; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.19Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:158

An nescitis quia corpus templum dei est, quod in uobis sancti spiritus est, quod habetis a deo? Cui grauissimam iniuriam facitis fornicando. Et non estis uestri:

“Or do you not know that the body is the temple of God, because it is the Holy Spirit's within you, which you have from God?” To which you do the gravest injury by sexual immorality. “And you are not your own:”

1 Cor 6:19 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Immorality injures the body, the Spirit's temple.

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.19 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:158; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.20Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:158–159

empti enim estis praetio magno. Qui non est suus, non habet suae uoluntati seruire, sed illius [a] quo emptus est, secundum ipsius iussum dicentis: ‘qui uult post me uenire, abneget se ipsum sibi.’ si enim homo a seruo parua pecunia conparato continuam exigit seruitutem, quanto magis ille qui nos sua morte redemit! sicut ait Petrus: ‘scientes quod non corruptibilibus, argento uel auro, redempti estis de uana uestra conuersatione paternae traditionis, sed pr[a]etio[so] sanguine, quasi agni immaculati et incontaminati Christi., [Aliter: Rescinditemptionis pactum quisque ius inculcauerit testamenti, et a seruili condicione alienus est qui libertate suae uoluntatis impeditur.] Glorificate et portate deum in corpore [uestro], Glorificate deum actibus uestris, et portate eum eius imaginem conseruando, sicut ait alibi: ‘sicut portauimus imaginem terreni,.ita portemus imaginem caelestis.’

“for you were bought at a great price.” He who is not his own may not serve his own will, but the will of him by whom he was bought, according to his own command when he says: “He who wishes to come after me, let him deny himself.” For if a man demands continual service from a slave bought for a little money, how much more he who redeemed us by his death! As Peter says: “Knowing that you were redeemed from your vain way of life handed down from your fathers, not with corruptible things, silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unblemished and undefiled.” “Glorify and carry God in your body.” Glorify God by your actions, and carry him by keeping his image, as he says elsewhere: “As we have borne the image of the earthly, so let us bear the image of the heavenly.”

1 Cor 6:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 16:24 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Pet 1:18–19 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:49 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Bought by Christ's blood, believers serve his will and bear his image.

Souter brackets “a”, letters of “pretioso”, “uestro”, and a comment beginning “Otherwise” on breaking the contract of purchase; left out.
Matt 16:24; 1 Pet 1:18–19; 1 Cor 15:49.
The lemma of 7:1 and its first comment, which the digital text repeats at the end of this section, are removed here; they are translated in 7.1.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split and joined words; split word; the lemma of 7:1 with its first comment, repeated from section 7.1 by the segmenter): incon taminatiChristi → incontaminati Christi; cor pore → corpore; l De quibus autem scripsistis mihi . Incipit de coniugiis: ante enim expugnauit inlicita quam de licitis loqueretur. Bonum est homini mulierem non tang ere: → .

Cite (SBL): Pelagius, Comm. 1 Cor. 6.20 (Souter, Texts and Studies 9.2 2:158–159; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/pelagius-expositiones-1-corinthios/6-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude from Souter's Latin (1926; our OCR of the VU Amsterdam scan); no public-domain English exists, so the translation was re-read against the Latin.