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John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Corinthians 7:9

But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

Ver. 9. Let them marry] There is no lust so hot and violent, but God's medicines rightly applied will cool and heal. Only remember that it is not the having, but the loving of a wife that keepeth a man chaste and clean. And that God doth use to correct excess and dalliance between married couples, with strong temptations after strange flesh.

Better to marry than burn] As an oven heated by the baker, Hosea 7:4. As those pagans were scalded, Romans 1:27, and these papagans a still are, that are forbidden to marry, and yet cannot contain.

a Papist, Popish (with allusion to pagan). ŒD

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