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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....
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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:...
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§ 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...
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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
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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“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....
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(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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO MARRIAGE.
The propriety and the duty of marriage:...
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NOW CONCERNING THE THINGS WHEREOF YE WROTE UNTO ME: IT IS GOOD FOR A
MAN NOT TO TOUCH A WOMAN....
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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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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...
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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...
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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
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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....
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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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1 Corinthians 7:1 Now G1161 concerning G4012 which G3739 wrote G1125
(G5656) me G3427 good G2570 man G444 no
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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_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,...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 Three Issues from the
Corinthians’ Letter. Paul discusses problems raised in a letter from
the Corinthians....
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_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...
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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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1 Corinthians 7:26; 1 Corinthians 7:27; 1 Corinthians 7:37; 1
Corinthians 7:38;...
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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...
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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....
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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...