1 Corinthians 6

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I am using the Douay version btw.

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?

**2 **Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Who exactly are the saints?
 
htk553 said:
I am using the Douay version btw.

1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to be judged before the unjust, and not before the saints?

**2 **Know you not that the saints shall judge this world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Who exactly are the saints?
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The notes in my JB & NAB say the saints are the Christian community.

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I assume they were the holy people who made it into heaven. Take in account this example from the Haydock Bible Commentary. It doesn’t say who the saints are, but implies that they are in heaven

Ver. 1. Go to law before the unjust. St. Paul here dissuades the new Christians from carrying their differences and causes about their temporal concerns before judges who were infidels, especially seeing the saints and the elect shall one day judge, that is, condemn all the wicked, and even the apostate angels, by approving the sentence which Christ shall pronounce against them at the day of judgment. (Witham) — It was not unusual in the primitive ages, and even under Christian emperors, for the Catholics to refer their disputes to the bishop, and to abide by his decision, as Possidius informs us, in the life of St. Augustine. (Estius)
 
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