1 Corinthians 7:31

As not abusing it.— The word Καταχρωμενοι does not here signify abusing in our sense of the word, but intently using,—not carrying the enjoyments of it to any excess; for the whole scheme and fashion of this world passes off, and is gone like a scene in a theatre, which presently shifts; or a pageant in some public procession, which, how gaudily soever it be adorned, to strike the eyes of spectators, is still in motion, and presently disappears, to shew itselffor a few moments to others. The reader will observe great elegance and beauty in this comparison: See 1 John 2:17. Wall, Doddridge, and Locke; the latter of whom thinks that all, from the beginning of 1 Corinthians 7:28 to the end of the present verse, should be looked upon as a parenthesis.