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I wrote unto you in my epistle (egrapsa humin en tēi epistolēi). 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 (mē sunanamignusthai pornois). Present middle infinitive with mē in an indirect command of a late double compound verb used in the papyri to mix up with (suṅanȧmignusthai, a mi verb). It is in the N.T. only here and 1Co 5:11; 2Th 3:14 which see. It is used here with the associative instrumental case (pornois, from peraō, pernēmi, 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.