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Dare any of you? (tolmāi tis humōṉ). Does any one of you dare? Rhetorical question with present indicative of tolmaō, old verb from tolma, 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 5:1-13 though no name is called.
Having a matter against his neighbour (pragma echōn pros ton heteron). Forensic sense of pragma (from prassō, to do, to exact, to extort as in Luk 3:13), a case, a suit (Demosthenes 1020, 26), with the other or the neighbour as in 1Co 10:24; 1Co 14:17; Gal 6:4; Rom 2:1.
Go to law (krinesthai). Present middle or passive (ch. Rom 3:4) in the same forensic sense as krithēnai in Mat 5:40. Kritēs, judge, is from this verb.
Before the unrighteous (epi tōn adikōn). This use of epi with the genitive for “in the presence of” is idiomatic as in 2Co 7:14, epi Titou, 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.