by permission i.e. by way of permissionon the Apostle's part to the Corinthian Church, not of God to him, as it is sometimes misunderstood. The original signification of the word thus rendered is agreement. Thence it comes to mean permission, indulgence, concession. Vulgate, indulgentia; Calvin (and Estius), venia; Beza, concessio; Wiclif, well, giving leave; Tyndale, of faveour.
Verse 1 Corinthians 7:6. _I SPEAK THIS BY PERMISSION_, c.] It was a constant custom of the more conscientious rabbins, to make a difference between the things which they enjoined on their _own judgme...
BUT I SPEAK THIS BY PERMISSION ... - It is not quite certain whether the word “this” (τοῦτο touto), in this verse, refers to what precedes, or to what follows. On this commentators are divided. The m...
4. CONCERNING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MAN AND WOMAN CHAPTER 7 _ 1. The Single and the Married Life. (1 Corinthians 7:1)._ 2. Separation and Divorce. (1 Corinthians 7:10). 3. Abiding in the Different Ca...
1 CORINTHIANS 7. PROBLEMS AS TO MARRIAGE, CELIBACY, AND DIVORCE. At this point Paul takes up a letter sent by the Corinthian church inviting his judgment on various questions, apparently indicating th...
Let the husband give to the wife all that is due to her; and in the same way let the wife give to the husband all that is due to him. A wife is not in absolute control of her own body, but her husband...
COMPLETE ASCETICISM (1 Corinthians 7:1-2)...
BY. according to. App-104. PERMISSION. Greek. _sungnome_. Only here. COMMANDMENT. Greek. _epitage._ See Romans 16:26....
ΚΑΤᾺ ΣΥΝΓΝΏΜΗΝ. A.V. _by permission_. Other commentators translate, _by way of indulgence_. But συνγνώμη properly means _pardon_, or _excuse_. So Calvin and Estius here. See Plato _Phaed._ 88 C νὴ τοὺ...
ADVICE CONCERNING MARRIAGE AND CELIBACY The newly-converted Corinthians had evidently found themselves in a difficulty concerning marriage. The Jews in general, whatever ascetics like the Essenes and...
_CONCERNING THE MARRIED LIFE 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1-9:_ Paul was questioned as to whether people should even marry at all. He begins, "Now I will answer the questions that you asked in your letter. You ask...
ΣΥΓΓΝΏΜΗ (G4774) уступка, позволение. "Я не даю это как запрет. Я говорю о том, что позволено" (Lightfoot, Notes), ΈΠΙΤΑΓΉ (G2003) повеление. Временное воздержание для молитвы — не приказ, а уступка...
BUT I SPEAK THIS BY PERMISSION— "You will observe, that I say this by permission from Christ; but not by any express command which he gave in person in the days ofhis flesh, or gives by the inspiratio...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 The Purity of Marriage (1 Corinthians 7:1-9) 7 Now concerning the matters about which you wrote. It is well for a man not to touch a woman. 2But because of the temptation...
But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment. BY PERMISSION ... NOT OF COMMANDMENT - not, by God's permission to me to say it; but, 'by way of permission to you, not as a commandment;' n...
1 It is unfortunate that our word "judge" usually takes on the sense of condemnation. The saints are not to condemn the world but to rule it during the eons. Saints in Israel will possess the kingdom...
7:6 [to], (c-7) Or 'permitting' it. Not 'by permission;' that would imply that he said it by the Lord's permission. He said it in the way of permission, not as command....
_(A) ANSWER TO QUESTIONS ABOUT MARRIAGE_ The Corinthians had in their letter (1 Corinthians 7:1) asked St. Paul's opinion on several points connectedwithmarriage. His language in reply is guarded; he...
THIS] Perhaps 1 Corinthians 7:5 more probably, all he has said in recommendation of marriage from 1 Corinthians 7:2 onwards....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 7 ADVICE ABOUT WHETHER TO MARRY 7:1-2 V1 But now I will deal with the matters that you wrote about. It is good for a man not to marry. V2...
BUT I SPEAK THIS BY PERMISSION. — Better, _Now I say this as a permission, and not as a command._ As the passage is given in our English version, it might seem as if the Apostle implied that he had no...
CHAPTER 11 MARRIAGE THERE are two preliminary considerations which throw some light on this much-contested passage. First, Paul had to speak about marriage as he found it, as it existed among those t...
§ 20. MARRIAGE OR CELIBACY? At this point the Ap. takes up the questions addressed to him by the Cor [993] Church (see _Introd_., chap. 2). In replying to Paul's previous letter, they had asked for cl...
τοῦτο δὲ λέγω points to the leading direction given in 1 Corinthians 7:2, from which 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 digressed: “I advise you to be married (though I think celibacy good, 1), κατὰ συνγνώμην,” _sec...
MARRIAGE BONDS 1 Corinthians 7:1 The Apostle first addresses the unmarried, 1 Corinthians 7:1, _etc_. He speaks elsewhere reverently of marriage, Ephesians 5:23. Forbidding to marry is in his j
Certain difficulties had arisen in the Corinthian Church concerning which they had sent inquiries to Paul. He now answers their questions. These answers contain principles of permanent application. Th...
Should A Single Christian Marry? Paul turned from dealing with problems of which he had heard to questions the Corinthians had asked. The first question, as seen by McGarvey, was, "Is marriage to be d...
(5) But I speak this by permission, [and] not of commandment. (5) Fifthly he teaches that marriage is not necessary for all men, but for those who do not have the gift of continency, and this gift is...
_By indulgence. That is, by a condescension to your weakness. (Challoner)_...
“Now I speak this by permission, not of commandment. 7. But I wish that all men were even as I myself; yet every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.” The re...
Notwithstanding the intrinsic excellence of celibacy, marriage should be the rule in practice. Such is the general meaning of this first passage....
(4) The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife. (5) Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent fo...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
6._By permission _That they might not, by taking their stand upon a precept of the kind that he had prescribed, loosen unduly the restraints of lust, (380) he adds a limitation — that he had written t...
The apostle proceeds by answering a question in connection with the subject he had been treating the will of God with regard to the relationship between man and woman. They do well who remain outside...
BUT I SPEAK THIS BY PERMISSION,.... Referring either to what he had said before, though not to all; not to 1 Corinthians 7:2 that for the avoiding of fornication, every man should make use of his own...
But I speak this by permission, _and_ not of commandment. Ver. 6. _And not of commandment_] Among the Jews marriage was not held a thing indifferent, or at their own liberty to choose or refuse, but...
_Defraud not_ Or deprive not; _one the other_ Of this benevolence; or withdraw not from the company of each other; _except it be with consent for a time, that_ On those special and solemn occasions, _...
BY PERMISSION; this was a subject about which persons were permitted to judge for themselves; and on which they should exercise an enlightened and conscientious Christian discretion....
Marriage an obligation under circumstances:...
BUT I SPEAK THIS BY PERMISSION AND NOT OF COMMANDMENT....
Those things in Chapter s 5 and 6, which were of such serious importance as demanding correction, had evidently not even been questions in the minds of the Corinthians. But Paul was required to raise...
BUT THIS. SAY BY WAY OF CONCESSION, NOT OF COMMANDMENT. 'concession' -4774. suggnome soong-gno'-may; from. compound of 4862 and 1097; fellow knowledge, i.e. concession: -permission. ' The question t...
1-9 The apostle tells the Corinthians that it was good, in that juncture of time, for Christians to keep themselves single. Yet he says that marriage, and the comforts of that state, are settled by D...
Some refer these words to all that had gone before in this chapter; but the best interpreters rather refer them to what went immediately before in the preceding verse, declaring, that he had no expres...
But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. [That his readers may understand his counsel, Paul discusses the marriage state, and shows that the reciprocal rights of the parties thereto fo...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV And again: "But this I speak by permission, not by commandment."[181] Tertullian To His Wife Book II them to remain permanently in that state, when he says, "But I...
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‘But this I say by way of permission and not of commandment.' While he gives this advice, he says, it is not something he has received direct from the Lord as an instruction. It is not found in the Ol...
1 Corinthians 7:6. BUT THIS I SAY BY PERMISSION, NOT OF COMMANDMENT as permissible in the married state, but giving no commandment, for what is suitable in one case may be the reverse in another....
BY WAY OF PERMISSION (κατα συνγνωμην). Old word for pardon, concession, indulgence. _Secundum indulgentiam_ (Vulgate). Only here in N.T., though in the papyri for pardon. The word means "knowing to...
CONTENTS: Sanctity of marriage. Regulation of marriage among Gentile believers. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: Marriage is by divine wisdom prescribed for the preventing of f...
It is evident from the tenor of this chapter that the Corinthians had written to the apostle for advice on the subject of marriage and its obligations, and that he is here resolving their various diff...
NOT AS AN ORDER. This may mean: (1) what he just said in 1 Corinthians 7:5_ (Johnson):_ (2) what he said in 1 Corinthians 7:2_ (Exp. Grk. Test._); (3) what he now says in 1 Corinthians 7:7 (MacKn
_Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman._ MARRIAGE I. Is not necessary for all (1 Corinthians 7:1). 1. Instituted by God, sanctified by Christ,...
_I speak this by permission, and not of commandment._ REVELATION I. By permission. 1. Is still Divine and therefore authoritative. 2. Respects matters of expediency and private application. II. B...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 7:5 DO NOT DEPRIVE. Married couples should abstain from sexual relations only for short periods of time and only when both the husband and wife agree. CONCESSION. P...
CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this chapter he answers five questions of the Corinthians about the laws of matrimony, and about the counsel of virginity and celibacy i. The first question is...
_But I speak this by permission and not of commandment_. 1. I permit the act of copulation by way of indulgence: I do not prescribe it. Nay, S. Augustine (_Enchirid._ c. 78) takes it: "I say this by w...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ A. 1. Observe: With this chapter commences a NEW SECTION of the Epistle; the topics, and perhaps their order, suggested by a letter of formal inquiry brought from Corinth: vii. Marri...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _Answers to the inquiries of the Corinthians respecting marriage._ 1 CORINTHIANS 7:1 _The_ _lawfulness of marriage, and its duties._...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the seventh chapter of I Corinthians. The Corinthian church was a mess. There were just a lot of problems, a problem with carnality. There were divisions in the chur...
1 Corinthians 7:12; 1 Corinthians 7:25; 2 Corinthians 11:17; 2 Corinthians 8:8...
But I say this — Concerning your separating for a time and coming together again. Perhaps he refers also to 1 Corinthians 7:2....
As if the apostle had said, "Mistake me not, as if. imposed marriage upon all persons as. duty: no, but. declare it is permitted to all as. remedy against fornication; for so far am. from that, that....