1Cor 5:9 | RWP | e4.org | I wrote unto you in my epistle ( εγραψα υμιν εν τη επιστολη ). Not the epistolary aorist, but a reference to an epistle to the Corinthians earlier than this one (our First Corinthians), one not preserved to us. What a "find" it would be if a bundle of papyri in Egypt should give it back to us? To have no company with fornicators ( μη συναναμιγνυσθα πορνοις ). Present middle infinitive with μη in an indirect command of a late double compound verb used in the papyri to mix up with ( συν-ανα-μιγνυσθα , a μ verb). It is in the N.T. only here and verse ; which see. It is used here with the associative instrumental case ( πορνοις , from περαω, περνημ , to sell, men and women who sell their bodies for lust). It is a pertinent question today how far modern views try to put a veneer over the vice in men and women.

‏ 1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote unto you in my epistle ( εγραψα υμιν εν τη επιστολη ). Not the epistolary aorist, but a reference to an epistle to the Corinthians earlier than this one (our First Corinthians), one not preserved to us. What a "find" it would be if a bundle of papyri in Egypt should give it back to us?

To have no company with fornicators ( μη συναναμιγνυσθα πορνοις ). Present middle infinitive with μη in an indirect command of a late double compound verb used in the papyri to mix up with ( συν-ανα-μιγνυσθα, a μ verb). It is in the N.T. only here and verse 11; 2Th 3:14 which see. It is used here with the associative instrumental case ( πορνοις, from περαω, περνημ, to sell, men and women who sell their bodies for lust). It is a pertinent question today how far modern views try to put a veneer over the vice in men and women.