Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians John Calvin (continued)
Chapter
1 Corinthians 6:1-8
1 Corinthians 6:1-8 1. Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
1. Audet aliquis vestrum, negotium habens cum altero, litigare sub iniustis, et non sub sanctis?
2. Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
2. An nescitis, quod sancti mundum iudicabunt? quodsi in vobis iudicatur mundus, indigni estis minimis iudiciis?
3. Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things pertain to this life?
3. An nescitis, quod angelos iudicabimus, nedum ad victum pertinentia? 4. If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
4. Iudicia ergo de rebus ad victum pertinentibus si habueritis, qui contemptibiles sunt in Ecclesia, 314 eos constituite.
5. I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
5. Ad erubescentiam vestram dico: adeo non est inter vos sapiens, ne unus quidem, qui possit iudicare inter fratres?
6. But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 6. Sed frater cum fratre litigat, idque sub infidelibus. 7. Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
7. Jam quidera omnino delictum in vobis est, quod iudicia habetis inter vos: cur non potius iniuriam sustinetis? 315
8. Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren. 8. Sed vos infertis iniuriam, et fraudatis, et quidem fratres. Here, he begins to reprove another fault among the Corinthians — an 314"De moindre estime en l'Eglise, ou, de nulle estime, assauoir au pris des autres;" — "Of least esteem in the Church, or of no esteem; that is, in comparison with others."
315"Pourquoy plustost n'endurez-vous l'injure? Pourqaoy plustost ne receuez-vous dommage?" — "Why, do you not rather suffer injury? Why do you not rather submit to loss?