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50* and courts where they are examined, fined, tied to whipping-posts and pilloried. Nay, those evil-doers deserve to be burned standing before those gods to whom they ran with their indictments. The best court for brethren would be to dispense justice on the basis of goodness which alone would advance and improve brotherly consciences in true virtue. I-Corinthians 6:4.

I-Corinthians 3:2.

I-Corinthians 6:2.

I-Corinthians 6:1.

i.e. to decide justice between members of the Christian brotherhood (I-Cor.6:5).

I-Corinthians 6:5–6, freely rendered.

I-Corinthians 6:5–8,

I-Corinthians 1:5.

For the sake of interesting comparison, we quote here some lines written by Erasmus of Rotterdam on the subject of courts and judges:"And as to the Court-Lords, what should I mention them? than most of whom though there be nothing more indebted, more servile, more witless, more contemptible, yet they would seem as they were the most excellent of all others. And yet in this only thing no men more modest, in that they are contented to wear about 'em Gold, Jewels, Purple, and those other marks of Vertue and Wisdome, but for the study of the things themselves, they remit it to others, thinking it happiness enough for them that they can call the King Master, have learnt the cringe , know when and where to use those Titles Your Grace, My Lord, Your Magnificence But if ye look into their manner of life you'll find 'em meer Sots, as debaucht as Penelope Wooers; you know the other part of the verse, which the Echo will better tell ye than I can A great may undertake endless Suites, and outvie one another who shall most enrich the Delatory Judge or Corrupt Advocate In short, if a man like Menippus of old could look down from the Moon, and behold those innumerable rufflings of Mankind, he would think he saw a swarm of Flies and Gnats quarrelling among themselves, fighting, laying Traps for one another, snatching, playing, wantonning, growing up, falling, and dying" (Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, , transl. by John Wilson in 1657, New York: Classics Club, 1942, p. 213f., and p. 179).

For the sake of interesting comparison, we quote here some lines written by Erasmus of Rotterdam on the subject of courts and judges:"And as to the Court-Lords, what should I mention them? than most of whom though there be nothing more indebted, more servile, more witless, more contemptible, yet they would seem as they were the most excellent of all others. And yet in this only thing no men more modest, in that they are contented to wear about 'em Gold, Jewels, Purple, and those other marks of Vertue and Wisdome, but for the study of the things themselves, they remit it to others, thinking it happiness enough for them that they can call the King Master, have learnt the cringe , know when and where to use those Titles Your Grace, My Lord, Your Magnificence But if ye look into their manner of life you'll find 'em meer Sots, as debaucht as Penelope Wooers; you know the other part of the verse, which the Echo will better tell ye than I can A great may undertake endless Suites, and outvie one another who shall most enrich the Delatory Judge or Corrupt Advocate In short, if a man like Menippus of old could look down from the Moon, and behold those innumerable rufflings of Mankind, he would think he saw a swarm of Flies and Gnats quarrelling among themselves, fighting, laying Traps for one another, snatching, playing, wantonning, growing up, falling, and dying" (Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, , transl. by John Wilson in 1657, New York: Classics Club, 1942, p. 213f., and p. 179).