1 Corinthians 7:21 (WEB)
Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“And a little further on he says: ‘Art thou called being a servant, care not for it; but, if thou mayest be made free, use it rather;’ that is to say, if you have a wife, and are bound to her, and render her her due, and have not power of your own body—or, to speak yet more plainly—if you are…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 21.
Read the whole comment“The same Paul also in the same chapter, when discussing the subjects of virginity and marriage, calls those who are married slaves of the flesh, but those not under the yoke of wedlock freemen who serve the Lord in all freedom.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 21, 22.
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Leo the Great
“And so the cause for complaint is twofold in this matter, because both the sacred ministry is polluted by such poor partners in it, and the rights of masters are infringed so far as unlawful possession is rashly taken of them.” — editor's note: Though no doubt S. Leo’s language is here harsh and offensive to modern ears, it is not, I think, substantially out of agreement with S. Paul’s own teaching…
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Tertullian
“…asking somewhat from husbands, not to say such a request as that (forsooth) their rivals—all the more “free” in that they are the “hand-maids” of Christ alone—may be surrendered to them.” — editor's note: Comp. 1 Cor. vii. 21, 22.
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Cross-references · 9
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 3.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.
Cited together in Letters Letter 4.