1 CORINTHIANS 7:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.”
For this world in its present form is passing away. — The cosmos in its morphē (form, arrangement) parerchetai (passes away), emphasizing the transient character of the present order. The present configuration of power, relationships, and values is temporary. This legitimizes the 'as if not' posture: why invest ultimate significance in what is ending? Believers are citizens of a future kingdom already inaugurated.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 7:31
“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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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