1 Corinthians 6:1
Dare any of you? ( τολμα τις υμων; ). Does any one of you dare? Rhetorical question with present indicative of τολμαω, old verb from τολμα, daring. Bengel: grandi verbo notatur laesa majestas Christianorum. "The word is an argument in itself" (Robertson and Plummer). Apparently Paul has an actual case in mind as in chapter 1Co 5 though no name is called.Having a matter against his neighbour ( πραγμα εχων προς τον ετερον ). Forensic sense of πραγμα (from πρασσω, to do, to exact, to extort as in Lu 3:13), a case, a suit (Demosthenes 1020, 26), with the other or the neighbour as in 10:24; 14:17; Ga 6:4; Ro 2:1.
Go to law ( κρινεσθα ). Present middle or passive (ch. Ro 3:4) in the same forensic sense as κριθηνα in Mt 5:40. Κριτης, judge, is from this verb.
Before the unrighteous ( επ των αδικων ). This use of επ with the genitive for "in the presence of" is idiomatic as in 2Co 7:14, επ Τιτου, in the case of Titus. The Jews held that to bring a lawsuit before a court of idolaters was blasphemy against the law. But the Greeks were fond of disputatious lawsuits with each other. Probably the Greek Christians brought cases before pagan judges.
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