[221:6] Acts xx. 7.

[221:7] Acts xx. 7; 1 Cor. x. 16.

[222:1] It was in use before the end of the second century.  See Kaye’s “Tertullian,” p. 431, 451.

[222:2] 1 Cor. x. 17.

[222:3] 1 Cor. v. 11.

[222:4] See Lightfoot’s “Works,” iii. 242, and xi. 179.  Vitringa “De Synagoga,” p. 550.

[222:5] Acts xx. 28.

[223:1] Heb. xiii. 17.

[223:2] Heb. xxi. 17.

[223:3] 1 Tim. iii. 5.

[223:4] 1 Tim. v. 19, 20.

[223:5] Heb. xiii. 17.

[223:6] 1 Cor. v. 1,13.

[223:7] 2 Cor. ii. 6.

[224:1] See Period I. section i. chap. v. p. 88.

[224:2] 1 Cor. v. 2, 6.

[224:3] 1 Cor.  V. 3-5.

[224:4] 1 John v. 19, [Greek:  en to ponero].

[225:1] In the above passage respecting delivering unto Satan there may be a reference to Job ii. 6, 7, and it may be that some bodily affliction rested on the offender.  In that case there would be here an exercise of supernatural power on the part of Paul.  According to Tertullian, to deliver to Satan was simply to excommunicate.  “De ceteris dixit qui illis traditis Satanae, id est, extra ecclesiam projectis, erudiri haberent blasphemandum non esse.”—­“De Pudicitia,” c. xiii.

[225:2] 1 Cor. i. 11,12.

[225:3] That the Church of Corinth at this time was organized in the same way as other Christian communities is evident from various allusions in the first epistle.  See 1 Cor. iv. 15, vi. 5, xii. 27, 28.  Crispus, mentioned Acts xviii. 8, was, no doubt, one of the eldership.  There is a reference to the elders in 1 Cor. xiv. 30.  See Vitringa, “De Synagoga,” p. 600.

[225:4] In the apostolic age, censures were pronounced in presence of the whole church.  See 1 Tim. v. 20.  It is to be noted that Paul himself does not excommunicate the offender.  He merely delivers his apostolic judgment that the thing should be done, and calls upon the Corinthians to do it; but he expects them to proceed in due order, the rulers and the people performing their respective parts.

[227:1] 2 Cor. ii. 7, 8.  The mode of proceeding here indicated is illustrated by what took place in the Church of Rome about the middle of the third century.  There certain penitents first appeared before the presbytery to express their contrition, and then it was arranged that “this whole proceeding should be communicated to the people, that they might see those established in the Church, whom they had so long seen and mourned wandering and straying.”—­Cyprian, Epist. xlvi. p. 136.  Edit.  Baluzius, Venice, 1728.

[228:1] That “the church” here signifies the eldership, see Vitringa, “De Synagoga,” p. 724.

[228:2] Matt, xviii. 15, 17.

[228:3] In our English version the original word [Greek:(paradosin)] is improperly rendered tradition.

[228:4] Thess. iii. 6.