1 Corinthians 7:22 (WEB)
For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
Fathers and councils · 3
Jerome
“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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Ambrose of Milan
““For he who is called in the Lord as a servant is the Lord’s freedman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 22.
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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 · 1
Cited together in On the Veiling of Virgins Chapter 3.