Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
your shame—Thus he checks their puffed-up spirit (I Corinthians 5:2; compare I Corinthians 15:34). To shame you out of your present unworthy course of litigation before the heathen, I have said (I Corinthians 6:4), "Set the least esteemed in the Church to judge." Better even this, than your present course.
Is it so?—Are you in such a helpless state that, etc.?
not a wise man—though ye admire "wisdom" so much on other occasions (I Corinthians 1:5, I Corinthians 1:22). Paul alludes probably to the title, "cachain," or wise man, applied to each Rabbi in Jewish councils.
no, not one—not even one, amidst so many reputed among you for wisdom (I Corinthians 3:18; I Corinthians 4:6).
shall be able—when applied to.
brethren—literally, "brother"; that is, judge between brother and brother. As each case should arise, the arbitrator was to be chosen from the body of the church, such a wise person as had the charism, or gift, of church government.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 6:5:
1 Corinthians 6:1
1 Corinthians 6:6
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