1 CORINTHIANS 7:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 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.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:29
“Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.” These words carry no contradiction to what had been said before but rather the most entire agreement with them. For he says in that place also, “Except it be by consent:” as here he says, “Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not separation.” This is no contradiction. For its being against consent makes a dissolution: but if with consent both live continently, it is no…
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