{What? Have ye not houses?} (M(8820)gar oikias ouk echete;)
The double negative (m(882d)-ouk) in the single question is like
the idiom in 9:4f. which see. M(885c) expects a negative answer
while ouk negatives the verb echete. "For do you fail to have
houses?" Paul is not approving gluttony and drunkenness but only
expressing horror at their sacrilege (despising, kataphroneite)
of the church of God. {That have not} ( ous m(8820)echontas). Not
those without houses, but those who have nothing, "the have-nots"
(Findlay) like 2Co 8:12 , in contrast with hoi echontes "the
haves" (the men of property). {What shall I say to you?} ( i
eip(9320)humin;) Deliberative subjunctive that well expresses Paul's
bewilderment.
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