Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
But now I write unto you (nun de egraya umin). This is the epistolary aorist referring to this same epistle and not to a previous one as in verse I Corinthians 5:9. As it is (when you read it) I did write unto you.
If any man that is named a brother be (ean tiv adelfov onomazomenov h). Condition of the third class, a supposable case.
Or a reviler or a drunkard (h loidorov h mequsov). Loidorov occurs in Euripides as an adjective and in later writings. In N.T. only here and I Corinthians 6:10. For the verb see I Corinthians 4:12. Mequsov is an old Greek word for women and even men (cf. paroinov, of men, I Timothy 3:3). In N.T. only here and I Corinthians 6:10. Cf. Romans 13:13. Deissmann (Light from the Ancient East, p. 316) gives a list of virtues and vices on counters for Roman games that correspond remarkably with Paul's list of vices here and in I Corinthians 6:10. Chrysostom noted that people in his day complained of the bad company given by Paul for revilers and drunkards as being men with more "respectable" vices!
With such a one, no, not to eat (tw toioutw mhde sunesqiein). Associative instrumental case of toioutw after sunesqiein, "not even to eat with such a one." Social contacts with such "a brother" are forbidden
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 5:11:
Mark 2:16
John 9:28
1 Corinthians 1:10
1 Corinthians 5:9
2 Thessalonians 3:14
1 Timothy 1:10
1 Timothy 1:20
1 Peter 2:23
1 Peter 5:12
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