ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 6 v18

SHUN VILE SERVITUDE. AMBROSE: Only by a swift flight can we shun the savagery of such a rabid mistress and escape from such vile servitude. CAIN AND ABEL 1.20.

SINNING AGAINST BODY AND SOUL. AMBROSIASTER: If someone hangs himself or kills himself with a dagger, he does not sin against his body but against his soul, on which he inflicts violence. But to fornicate is a sin of the body which touches both the body and the soul. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

COMPOUNDING OTHERS’ SINS. PELAGIUS: Fornication multiplies sins because two people are involved, and both perish together. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 6.

THE ENTIRE BODY DEFILED. CHRYSOSTOM: What Paul says here obviously applies to the murderer, the covetous person and the extortioner equally well. But as it was not possible to mention anything worse than fornication, Paul magnifies the crime by saying that in the fornicator the entire body is defiled. It is a sin against one’s own self in a way that the others are not. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 18.2.

BE AWARE OF THE PERNICIOUSNESS OF EVIL. THEODORET OF CYR: Note that Paul did not say that we should hate immorality, but that we should shun it as people who are aware of the perniciousness of evil. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 198.

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