Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 7:1
It is good for a man — Who is master of himself. Not to touch a women — That is, not to marry. So great and many are the advantages of a single life.
It is good for a man — Who is master of himself. Not to touch a women — That is, not to marry. So great and many are the advantages of a single life.
CHAPTER VII. _A solution of several difficult cases concerning marriage and_ _married persons_, 1-6. _God has given every man his proper gift_, 7. _Directions to the unmarried and widows_, 8, 9....
NOW, CONCERNING ... - In reply to your inquiries. The first, it seems, was in regard to the propriety of marriage; that is, whether it was lawful and expedient. IT IS GOOD - It is well. It is fit, con...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS 7. PROBLEMS AS TO MARRIAGE, CELIBACY, AND DIVORCE. At this point Paul takes up a letter sent by the Corinthian church inviting his judgment on various questions, apparently indicating th...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
With regard to your letter and its suggestion that it would be a fine thing for a man not to have anything to do with a woman--to avoid fornication, let each man possess his own wife, and each woman h...
CONCERNIN g. App-104. THE THINGS WHEREO. = what things. YE WROTE. The Corinthians had written. letter, but carefully avoided any reference to the disorders among themselves. These had been reported b...
1 Corinthians 7:1-9. Advice concerning Marriage and Celibacy 1. _Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me_ The newly converted Corinthians had evidently found themselves in a difficulty conc...
ΔΈ. This carries on the thought from the last chapter. St Paul has not left the subject of glorifying God with the body. He has only entered upon a fresh branch of it. Having dismissed the question of...
ADVICE CONCERNING MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY The newly-converted Corinthians had evidently found themselves in a difficulty concerning marriage. The Jews in general, whatever ascetics like the Essenes and...
_CONCERNING THE MARRIED LIFE 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-9:_ Paul was questioned as to whether people should even marry at all. He begins, "Now I will answer the questions that you asked in your letter. You ask...
ΠΕΡΊ (G4012) с _gen._ по поводу. Выражение ΠΕΡΊ ΔΈ используется для введения темы, в связи с которой члены коринфской церкви писали Павлу (_см._ 1 Corinthians 7:25; 1 Corinthians 8:1;...
NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS, &C.— The chief business of the foregoing chapter we have seen to be, the lessening the credit of the false Apostle, and the extinguishing of that faction. What follows is in...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 The Purity of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:1-9) 7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of the temptation...
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. The Corinthians in their letter had asked questions tending to disparage marriage, and implied that it...
1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
_(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...
THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE] Probably most of the rest of the Epistle is taken up with answers to these questions, and considerations arising out of them. It is not clear whether the letter from the C...
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...
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...
Περὶ δὲ ὧν ἐγράψατε : “Now about the things on which you wrote (to me)”. Περὶ ὧν = περὶ τούτων περὶ ὧν (not ἅ); _cf._ the constructions of rel [996] pron [997] in 1 Corinthians 7:39; 1 Corinthians 10:...
§ 20. MARRIAGE OR CELIBACY? At this point the Ap. takes up the questions addressed to him by the Cor [993] Church (see _Introd_., chap. 2). In replying to Paul's previous letter, they had asked for cl...
MARRIAGE BONDS 1 Corinthians 7:1 The Apostle first addresses the unmarried, 1 Corinthians 7:1, _etc_. He speaks elsewhere reverently of marriage, Ephesians 5:23. Forbidding to marry is in his j
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...
Should A Single Christian Marry? Paul turned from dealing with problems of which he had heard to questions the Corinthians had asked. The first question, as seen by McGarvey, was, "Is marriage to be d...
Now (1) concerning the things (a) whereof ye wrote unto me: [It is] (b) good for a man not to touch a woman. (1) He teaches concerning marriage that although a single life has its advantages, which h...
Now concerning. The heads of the Church of Corinth had written to St. Paul, desiring to know whether he thought it more expedient to marry or not. This was a question which the sages of antiquity had...
“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman; 2. but, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband....
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
CONTENTS The Apostle is chiefly treating in this Chapter, on the Subject of Marriage. He dwells largely on the several Circumstances connected with it, and makes very many blessed Observations, by wa...
(1) Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. (2) Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her...
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...
As he had spoken of fornication, he now appropriately proceeds to speak of marriage which is the remedy for avoiding fornication. Now it appears, that, notwithstanding the greatly scattered state of t...
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...
NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE UNTO ME,.... Though the false apostles had greatly influenced the members of this church, yet there were many among them that had a very great respect for th...
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: _It is_ good for a man not to touch a woman. Ver. 1. _Whereof ye wrote unto me_] Certain cases of conscience they had propounded, which here he ans...
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me_ The letter of the Corinthian believers to which the apostle alludes here, and in which it appears they put divers questions to him, hath long been...
THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE; these were certain things about which the Christians at Corinth had, in a letter to Paul, requested him to give his views. GOOD FOR A MAN; best under the peculiar circums...
INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO MARRIAGE. The propriety and the duty of marriage:...
NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE UNTO ME: IT IS GOOD FOR A MAN NOT TO TOUCH A WOMAN....
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...
NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE: IT IS GOOD FOR. MAN NOT TO TOUCH. WOMAN. 'Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote' -'The matters which they raised can be gathered in part from Paul's i...
1-9 The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, in that juncture of time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, and the comforts of that state, are settled by D...
1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 7 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 Marriage is to be used as a remedy against fornication. 1 CORINTHIANS 7:10,11 Christ hath forbidden to dissolve the bond thereof. 1 Corinthi
Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote [Hitherto Paul has written concerning things which he learned by common report; he now begins to reply to questions which they had asked him in their letter....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Et rursus cure dicit: "Bonum est homini uxorem non tangere, sed propter fornicationes unusquisque suam uxorem habeat; "[176] Tertullian On Monogamy as being...
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CHRISTIAN HUSBANDS AND WIVES AND THE ALTERNATIVE FOR THE UNMARRIED AND WIDOWS (7:1-11) ‘Now concerning the things of which you wrote. It is good for a man not to touch a woman, but because of fornica...
1 Corinthians 7:1. NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE: [1] IT IS GOOD FOR A MAN NOT TO TOUCH A WOMAN _i.e._ to marry (an Old Testament phrase). Not as if he meant that marriage was wrong in it...
NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE (περ δε ων εγραψατε). An ellipsis of περ τουτων, the antecedent of περ ων, is easily supplied as in papyri. The church had written Paul a letter in which a...
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...
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...
YOU WROTE ABOUT. In the first six Chapter s, Paul with specific problems of sin in the group. Now he begins to answer questions which they had written to him. To understand this chapter, you must know...
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman._ MARRIAGE I. Is not necessary for all (1 Corinthians 7:1). 1. Instituted by God, sanctified by Christ,...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 Three Issues from the Corinthians’ Letter. Paul discusses problems raised in a letter from the Corinthians....
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...
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me._ In answer to the questions you have put to me about the rights, use, and end of matrimony and the single life, I answer that _it is good for a man...
_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...
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._...
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...
1 Corinthians 7:26; 1 Corinthians 7:27; 1 Corinthians 7:37; 1 Corinthians 7:38;...
It is good [κ α λ ο ν]. See on John 10:11. Not merely expedient, but morally salutary. The statement, however, is made in the light of circumstances, see ver. 26, and is to be read with others, such a...
The first scruple or case of conscience which the Corinthians wrote to the apostle about was concerning marriage. Amongst many other wicked opinions, which the Gnostics, those ancient heretics, mainta...