John Trapp on 1 Corinthians 6:4
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1 Corinthians6:4
Verſe 4. If then ye have judgements] As the Corinthians being many of them merchants, had many law-ſutes. But if mens hearts were not bigger then their ſutes, there would not be half ſo many.
Who are leaſt eſteemed] Rather then go to law before Heathen Judges. The loweſt, if of any judgement, are high enough for ſuch a purpoſe. Why ſhould thoſe ſordida poſcinummia qui latrocinia intra mania exercent, as Columella hath it, thoſe Crumenimulgae, the unconſcionable Lawyers make a ſpoil of us; and then when they die build Hoſpitals for fools, as one of them did, ſaying, Of fools I got my eſtate, and to fools I will leave it?Purchas his Microcoſm. Of thoſe that go to Law, we may well ſay, as Charoudas once did of thoſe that go to ſea, Se non mirari qui ſemel mare ingreſſus ſit, ſed qui iterum, that he marvelled not at thoſe that went once, S[illegible: 1 letter]apl. mor[illegible: 1 letter]do, 2. poſt pent. but at thoſe that would go again.
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