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12. τί γάρ μοι. The connection of thought in this and the next verse is as follows: ‘You have supposed me to have been urging you to abstain altogether from any kind of intercourse with sinners. You misunderstood my meaning. I only meant to refer to the members of your own community. As you might have gathered from your own practice, which is confined to the Christian body, I have no authority to deal with those without. They are in the hands of God.’ And then he abruptly adds, ‘Cast out the wicked man,’ or ‘the evil thing.’ See Critical Note on 1Co 5:13.
οὐχὶ τοὺς ἔσω ὑμεῖς κρίνετε; ὑμεῖς is of course emphatic, and τοὺς ἔσω scarcely less so. ‘How should I undertake to judge those that are without? What do you do? Must not you confine your sentences to those that are within. Have you any power over others?’