2 CORINTHIANS 6:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do they have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? — het apistois (unbelievers) prohibits yoking (heterozygeo, mixed partnership). The series of rhetorical questions (meris/heterozetis, common interest/partnership; metochē, fellowship; synchoōnēsis, harmony) builds the case for separation.
Church Fathers on 2 Corinthians 6:14
“Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers.” He said not, 'Intermix not with unbelievers,' but rather dealing sharply with them, as transgressing what was right, 'Suffer not yourselves to turn aside,' says he, “For what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity?” Here in what follows he institutes a comparison, not between his own love and theirs who corrupt them, but between their nobleness and the others' dishonor. For thus his discourse became more dignified and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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