1 Corinthians 7:18 (WEB)
Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised.
Fathers and councils · 7
Jerome
“…then he suddenly introduces the metaphors of circumcision and uncircumcision, of bond and free, and under those metaphors treats of the married and unmarried.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18 sq.
Read the whole comment“Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised” (a passage, it is true, which some most careful interpreters of Scripture refer to the circumcision and slavery of the Law), do I not in the clearest terms stand up for the marriage-tie?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18.
Read the whole comment“Is any called being circumcised,”—that is, as a virgin?—“let him not become uncircumcised”—that is, let him not seek the coat of marriage given to Adam on his expulsion from the paradise of virginity.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18.
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Origen
- Origen, De Principiis IV.1Book IV
“Let him not become uncircumcised.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18.
Read the whole comment - Origen, De Principiis IV.2Book IV
“In the first place, anyone will see that he does not utter these words in connection with the subject before him.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised;” that he did those things, in which, by persons not understanding and not enough attending, he has been accounted to have feigned.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18
Read the whole comment“Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 18–20
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.
Cited together in Of the Work of Monks Chapter 12.