1 Corinthians 5:6 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 5:6

“Your glorying is not good:” signifying that it was they up to the present time who had hindered him from repenting, by taking pride in him. Next he shows that he is taking this step in order to spare not that person only, but also those to whom he writes. To which effect he adds, “Do you not know, that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?” “For,” says he, “though the offense be his, yet if neglected it has power to waste the rest of the body of the Church also. For when…