1 Corinthians 7:3 (WEB)
Let the husband give his wife the affection owed her, and likewise also the wife her husband.
Fathers and councils · 9
John Chrysostom
“Yet Paul allows thee not, who gives the wife likewise the same authority, for thus he speaks: “Let the husband render unto the wife due honor.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3. In our copies of the Greek Testament, and in the mss. of St. Chrysostom, here it is, ενοιαν, not τιμν. But Mr. Field writes τιμν, 1. from…
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Jerome
“But lest I should seem wholly to have passed over the matter, I will just say now that the apostle bids us pray without ceasing, and that he who in the married state renders his wife her due cannot so pray.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3, R.V.
Read the whole comment“But as he who has once married a wife cannot, except by consent, abstain from intercourse with her or repudiate her, so long as she does not sin, he must render unto his wife her due, because he has of his own free will bound himself to render it under compulsion.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3, R.V.
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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“What (of the fact) that she endured not to have been met alone; but in the presence of Adam, not yet her husband, not yet bound to lend her his ears, she is impatient of keeping silence, and makes him the transmitter of that which she had imbibed from the Evil One?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3; compare also 1 Pet. iii. 7.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He gives laws for slaves and masters, rulers and ruled, husbands and wives, parents and children, marriage and celibacy, self-discipline and indulgence, wisdom and ignorance, circumcision and uncircumcision, Christ and the world, the flesh and the spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3, 8, 25, 31.
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Gregory the Great
“Whence to such as were still weak he added, Let the husband render unto the wife her due; and likewise also the wife unto the husband (v. 3).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Merito ergo dicit: “Melius est matrimonio jungi quam uri,” ut “vir reddat debiturn uxori, et uxor viro, et ne frustrentur invicem” hoc divino ad generationera dato auxilio.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 3, 5.
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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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