ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 6 v12

PREMISED ON SELF-DISCIPLINE. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: All things are lawful, but that is obviously premised upon self-discipline. STROMATEIS 3.40.5.

QUALIFYING “ALL THINGS.” AMBROSIASTER: By “all things” Paul presumably means those things which are contained in the natural law and which were also lawful for his fellow apostles. It would not refer to the law of Moses, because Moses forbade many things owing to the hardness of heart of an unbelieving and stiff-necked people. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

AVOID SLAVERY TO DESIRES. CHRYSOSTOM: Paul means that if we are free to choose, then we should remain free and not become a slave to any particular desire. Anyone who orders his desires properly remains the master of them, but once he goes beyond this limit he loses control and becomes their slave. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 161.1.

SOME CHOICES ARE FLATLY WRONG. THEODORET OF CYR: Now that we are no longer under the law, we have the freedom to make choices, but we need to realize that some choices are right and others wrong. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 19.7.

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