Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Dare any of you? (tolmai tiv umwn). Does any one of you dare? Rhetorical question with present indicative of tolmaw, 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 though no name is called.
Having a matter against his neighbour (pragma exwn prov ton eteron). Forensic sense of pragma (from prassw, to do, to exact, to extort as in Luke 3:13), a case, a suit (Demosthenes 1020, 26), with the other or the neighbour as in I Corinthians 10:24; I Corinthians 14:17; Galatians 6:4; Romans 2:1.
Go to law (krinesqai). Present middle or passive (ch. Romans 3:4) in the same forensic sense as kriqhnai in Matthew 5:40. Krithv, judge, is from this verb.
Before the unrighteous (epi twn adikwn). This use of epi with the genitive for "in the presence of" is idiomatic as in II Corinthians 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.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 6:1:
1 Corinthians 1:10
1 Corinthians 6:4
1 Corinthians 6:12
Colossians 2:23
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