1 CORINTHIANS 7:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;”
What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short. — The proclamation that ho kairos synestalmenos estin (the time is contracted, compressed, shortened) grounds all the preceding counsel. This is not mere calculation but theological conviction: the parousia is near, making ordinary pursuits relativized. All earthly relations and responsibilities are measured against the impending consummation.
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