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Verse 18. _IS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED?_] Is any man who was
formerly a _Jew_ converted to Christianity?
_LET HIM NOT BECOME CIRCUMCISED._] Let him not endeavour to abolish
the sign of the o...
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IS ANY MAN CALLED? - Does anyone become a Christian? See the note at 1
Corinthians 1:26.
BEING CIRCUMCISED - Being a native-born Jew, or having become a Jewish
proselyte, and having submitted to the...
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4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN
CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._
2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10).
3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
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He now passes on to special classes. First, those who are unmarried or
have lost their partners. It would be best for them to follow Paul's
example and remain as they are. But if they have not the gif...
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COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
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The one thing that is necessary is that each man should walk as God
has allotted to him and as God has called him. It is thus that I order
things in all the Churches. Was any man called after he had b...
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_Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
uncircumcised_ Many Jews, we are assured, were ashamed of their
Judaism, and were desirous to obliterate all the outward signs of it.
(1Ma 1:15...
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Christianity not intended to revolutionize the relations between the
believer and society
17. _But as God hath distributed_ The permission to live apart from a
heathen husband or wife is given only to...
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ΚΈΚΛΗΤΑΙ אABDFG. Rec. ἐκλήθη.
18. ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΜΗΜΈΝΟΣ ΤΙΣ. Many Jews, we are assured,
were ashamed of their Judaism, and were desirous to obliterate all the
outward signs of it. (1Ma 1:15.) This feeling wo...
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CHRISTIANITY NOT INTENDED TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE
BELIEVER AND SOCIETY...
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_CONCERNING GOD'S CALL 1 CORINTHIANS 7:17-24:_ The Bible teaches that
we should be content in whatever situation we are in. Paul said, "As
the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordai...
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ΠΕΡΙΤΕΤΜΗΜΈΝΟΣ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_
ΠΕΡΙΤΈΜΝΩ (G4059) обрезать. _Perf._
подчеркивает состояние или условие,
ΕΚΛΉΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) звать.
Вогосл. _pass._ указывает, что зо...
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IS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED?— This is a very pertinent
digression, as it so directly contradicts the notion which prevailed
among the Jews, that embracing the true religion dissolved all the
r...
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BUTLER'S COMMENTS
SECTION 3
The Pressures of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:17-40)
17 Only, let every one lead the life which the Lord has assigned to
him, and in which God has called him. This is my rul...
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APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS
_Directions for the Married_ (10-24)
_Commentary_
Unto the married, I give charge.Paul, speaking as an apostle of
Christ, gives direction to those who are already married. It is...
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Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised
Is any called in uncircumcision? Is any man called being circumcised?
let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircum...
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8 It is evident that the preceding concession is only a general rule,
not applicable to those not then married. Their relations are to be
regulated by mutual consideration, but the unmarried need to c...
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_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_
The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St.
Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language
in reply is guarded; he...
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CIRCUMCISED.. UNCIRCUMCISED] Used metaphorically, 'If any Jew has been
converted, let him remain a Christian Jew; if a Gentile is converted,
let him not seek to become a Jew, but remain a Christian Ge...
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SERVANTS OF CHRIST
1 CORINTHIANS
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 7
ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2
V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is
good for a man not to marry. V2...
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IS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED? — Better, _Was any one called
having been circumcised?_ The previous general rule is now illustrated
by, and applied to, two conditions of life — CIRCUMCISION (1
C...
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CHAPTER 11
MARRIAGE
THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on
this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage
as he found it, as it existed among those t...
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The rule of 1 Corinthians 7:17 applied to the most prominent and
critical distinction in the Church, that between _Jew and Gentile_ :
περιτετμημένος τις ἐκλήθη κ. τ. λ.; “Was
any one called (as) a _ci...
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§ 22. GOD'S CALLING AND ONE'S EARTHLY STATION. In treating of
questions relating to marriage, the Apostle's general advice admitting
of large exceptions (1 Corinthians 7:2; 1 Corinthians 7:9; 1
Corint...
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SERVE GOD IN YOUR CALLING
1 Corinthians 7:15
There was much unsettlement in regard to marriage in the church at
Corinth. An unnatural asceticism was showing itself in some quarters
and a lawless self...
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Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning
which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions.
These answers contain principles of permanent application.
Th...
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The Christian's Social Relations
Becoming a Christian should not be used as an excuse for disrupting
normal social relations, assuming they are not sinful. Christianity is
only disruptive to that whic...
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(13) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not (o) become
uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be
circumcised.
(13) Nonetheless he shows us that in these examples all ar...
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Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should
be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first
passage....
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To illustrate the spirit of the prescriptions which he has just given,
and to trace at the same time the line of conduct to be followed in
certain analogous cases which occurred in the life of the Chu...
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“Is any man called being circumcised, let him not become
uncircumcised; is any called in uncircumcision, let him not be
circumcised. 19. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing, but the...
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(18) Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become
uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be
circumcised. (19) Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is
nothing, bu...
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As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle
give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle
speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
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18._Circumcised_, etc. As he had made mention of the _calling_, he
takes occasion, from a particular instance, to make a digression for a
little into a general exhortation, as he is wont to do in many...
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The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the
subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the
relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
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IS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED?.... That is, if any man that is a
Jew, who has been circumcised in his infancy, is called by the grace
of God, as there were many in those days, and many of them i...
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_Is any man called_ Brought to the saving knowledge of Christ, and to
a participation of his grace; _being circumcised_ Having been born of
Jewish parents, and therefore circumcised in his childhood,...
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BEING CIRCUMCISED; having been circumcised as a Jew.
LET HIM NOT BECOME UNCIRCUMCISED; not try to undo or disavow his
circumcision....
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IS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED? LET HIM NOT BECOME UNCIRCUMCISED.
IS ANY CALLED IN UNCIRCUMCISION? LET HIM NOT BE CIRCUMCISED....
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A general application of these truths:...
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Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious
importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been
questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to
raise...
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WAS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED? LET HIM NOT BECOME
UNCIRCUMCISED. HATH ANY BEEN CALLED IN UNCIRCUMCISION? LET HIM NOT BE
CIRCUMCISED.
'called being circumcised?' -'already circumcised?'
'LET H...
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17-24 The rules of Christianity reach every condition; and in every
state a man may live so as to be a credit to it. It is the duty of
every Christian to be content with his lot, and to conduct himse...
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Is any one who was a native Jew, and so circumcised according to the
Jewish law, converted (while he is in that state) to the faith of
Christ? Let him not affect the state of him that, having been for...
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Was any man called [converted] _being circumcised? let him not become
uncircumcised_. [1 Macc. 1:15.] _Hath any been called in
uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised_....
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Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
Or is any in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. For neither
of these is anything, but only the keeping of the commandments of
God....
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1 Corinthians 7:18 Was G2564 anyone G5100 called G2564 (G5681)
circumcised G4059 (G5772) him G1986 not G3361
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‘Was any man called being circumcised, let him not become
uncircumcised. Has any been called in uncircumcision, let him not be
circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing,
but...
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CHRISTIANS NEED NOT FEEL COMPELLED TO LEAVE THE STATE IN WHICH THEY
WERE WHEN THEY WERE CALLED (7:17-24).
Paul now stresses that from a spiritual point of view Christians need
not worry about their ea...
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_The forgoing Principles applied to other Cases,_ 18-24.
And first, _Circumcision._
1 Corinthians 7:18. WAS ANY MAN CALLED BEING CIRCUMCISED? LET HIM NOT
BECOME UNCIRCUMCISED which, under the persec...
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LET HIM NOT BECOME UNCIRCUMCIZED
(μη επισπασθω). Present middle imperative of
επισπαω, old verb to draw on. In LXX (I Macc. 1:15) and
Josephus (_Ant_. XII, V. I) in this sense. Here only in N.T. Th...
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CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile
believers.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul.
CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing
of f...
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It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had
written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its
obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
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IF A CIRCUMCISED MAN. Paul applies the principle of 1 Corinthians
7:17_ to a_ specific case. Circumcision was a _live issue_ (see Acts
15:5-21). If you are already circumcised, don't try to _undo_ it....
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_But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called
every one, so let him walk._
EVERY CHRISTIAN AT HIS POST
1. God appoints every man his station and condition in life.
2. Has calle...
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CHAPTER 7
SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER
In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the
laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy
i. The first question is...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
A.
1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle;
the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal
inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
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EXPOSITION
1 CORINTHIANS 7:1
_Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._
1 CORINTHIANS 7:1
_The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I
Corinthians.
The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a
problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
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Acts 15:1; Acts 15:19; Acts 15:24; Acts 15:28; Acts 15:5;...
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Become uncircumcised [ε π ι σ π α σ θ ω]. The reference is to
the process of restoring a circumcised person to his natural condition
by a surgical operation. See Josephus, "Antiquities," 12, 5, 1; 1
M...
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Here the apostle proceeds to exhort the Corinthians to be content with
the lot and condition which God had distributed unto them, and to
frame themselves to walk Christianly in it.
Particularly he sh...