If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Ver. 22. If any man love not] That is, desperately hate. A sin so execrable, that the apostle would not once name it. So the Jews would not name leaven at the passover, nor a sow at any time, but called it dabar achar, another thing.
Anathema, Maranatha] Accursed upon accursed, put over to God to punish. This is a dreadful curse. (Elias Thisbit.) See a gracious promise, Ephesians 6:24. God may suffer such as love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, to be Anathema secundum dici (as Bucholcer said), but not secundum esse. See an instance, Isaiah 66:5, and say with David, "Let them curse, but do thou bless, Lord."