ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 7 v2

DO NOT DESTROY YOUR SPOUSE’S HAPPINESS IN YOUR QUEST FOR HOLINESS. ORIGEN: You have given up your wife, to whom you are bound. This is a big step you have taken. You are not abusing her, you say, but claiming that you can be chaste and live more purely. But look how your poor wife is being destroyed as a result, because she is unable to endure your purity! You should sleep with your wife, not for your sake but for hers. COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.33.23-25.

THE COMMAND TO HAVE SEX IS NOT ABSOLUTE. PELAGIUS: People who want to be promiscuous argue that God commanded us to have sexual relations, so that the earth would be filled with human beings. But God is quite capable of making humans out of the earth, as he did at the beginning, so this is no excuse. COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 7.

ENCOURAGING VIRGINITY. CHRYSOSTOM: Some people think that this was written primarily for priests, but judging from what follows, this cannot be right. If he had meant it only for priests, he would have said so, but throughout this [chapter] he speaks of persons in general. Paul permits marriage as a concession, but the very fact that it is designed to avoid fornication shows that he is really trying to encourage virginity. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 19.1.

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