1 Corinthians 7:1 (WEB)
Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
Fathers and councils · 12
Jerome
“Let us then consider Paul’s replies to these inquiries.“Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1 sq.
Read the whole comment“Hence, also, the apostle says: ‘It is good for a man not to touch’ a wife or ‘a woman,’ as if there were danger in the contact which he who should so touch one could not escape.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…them even before your daughter, and would emancipate yourself from God’s first decree of the Law to put yourself under His second dispensation of the Gospel.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1.
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Ambrose of Milan
“For, first, it is said: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…heed to the voice from the clouds: “Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in the flesh, but I spare you;” and, “It is good for a man not to touch a woman;” and, “He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord; but he that is married careth for the things that are of…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1.
Read the whole comment“…not commit adultery,” and all those precepts which are not commandments but special counsels, one of which is, “It is good for a man not to touch a woman,” are rightly carried out only when the motive principle of action is the love of God, and the love of our neighbor in God.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1
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Tertullian
“…to have no contact with a woman; but, on account of fornication, let each one have his own wife: let husband to wife, and wife to husband, render what is due.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1–3.
Read the whole comment“…to “eunuchs,” as being Himself, withal, a virgin; to whom looking, the apostle also—himself too for this reason abstinent—gives the preference to continence. (“Yes”), you say, “but saving the law of marriage.”” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vii. 1, 7, 37, 40; and comp. de Ex. Cast., c. iv.
Read the whole comment“The very phases themselves of this (inexperience) are intelligible from (the apostle’s) rescripts, when he says: “But concerning these (things) which ye write; good it is for a man not to touch a woman; but, on account of fornications, let each one have his own wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1, 2.
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Gregory the Great
“…he said, It is good for a man not to touch a woman: but on account of fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband (1 Cor. vii. 1, 2).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Et rursus cure dicit: “Bonum est homini uxorem non tangere, sed propter fornicationes unusquisque suam uxorem habeat;” id veluti exponens, rursus dicit: “Ne vos tentet Satanas.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1, 2.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But every one has his proper gift from God; one in one way, but another in another way.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 1–7.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 3.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 3.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 3.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 3.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in Confessions II.2.
Cited together in Confessions II.2 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 3.
Cited together in On Monogamy Chapter 11.