1Co 5:8. ἙοÏτάζωμεν, let us keep the feast) The Vulgate has epulemur, “let us feast:†an apposite expression.-παλαιᾷ, with the old) of Judaism and heathenism. These constitute the genus.-κακίας καὶ πονηÏίας) These constitute the species: κακία is vice, the reverse of virtue, and that too, virtue unmixed, or in sincerity, τῇ εἰλικÏινείᾳ. πονηÏία is in those, who strenuously retain and defend κακίαν, and is opposed, τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, to the truth. Ammonius writes thus: πονηÏὸς, ὠδÏαστικὸς κακοῦ, he who is disposed TO DO evil;[40] comp. 1Co 5:13. Sincerity takes care not to allow evil to be mixed up with good; truth, not to allow evil to be mistaken for good.
[40] Κακία is the evil habit of the mind: πονηÏία, the outcoming of the same. Calvin defines κακία, “animi pravitas,†on Eph 4:32. πονηÏός is ὠπαÏÎχων πόνους. See Trench, Syr. Gr. Text.-ED.