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6. ἀλλὰ ἀδελφός. ‘It is not a question between ecclesiastical and civil courts, but between Law and Equity, Litigation and Arbitration.… The remedy is not more elaborate law, nor cheaper law, nor greater facility of law, but more Christianity.’ Robertson. Cf. note on 1Co 6:1.
ἐπὶ ἀπίστων. Before unbelievers, the fact of appearing before unbelievers at all on such matters being the point to which attention is directed. ‘Beside the scandal of such a proceeding, as exposing their internal differences to the eyes of the heathen, there were certain formularies to be gone through in the heathen law-courts, such as adjurations by heathen deities, which would involve them in idolatrous practices.’ Bp. Wordsworth. Cf. also Blunt, Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, pp. 110, 149.