1 Corinthians 7:30 (WEB)
and those who weep, as though they didn’t weep; and those who rejoice, as though they didn’t rejoice; and those who buy, as though they didn’t possess;
Fathers and councils · 14
Jerome
“But, as things are, and it is not so much the joy as the tribulation of marriage that is short, why do we take wives whom we shall soon be compelled to lose?“And those that weep, and those that rejoice, and those that buy, and those that use the world, as though they wept not, as though they rejoiced not, as though…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30 sqq.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…perchance even selling all their goods and distributing to the poor, or “possessing as though they possessed not, and using this world as though not using it.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30, 31.
Read the whole comment“What is this?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–32.
Read the whole comment“…the things of the Lord, to be holy both in body and spirit: but she that is married, is anxious about the things of the world, how to please her husband.”” — editor's note: Ver. 29–34
Read the whole comment“I would have you be without carefulness.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–32.
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John Chrysostom
““That they that rejoice in wealth, be as though they rejoiced not; and they that have, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as not abusing it.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30, 31.
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Tertullian
“And “they who buy are so to act as if they possessed not.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“For the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 30, 31.
Read the whole comment“…that buy not, and they who possess as they who possess not, and they who use this world as they that use it not; for the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–31.
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Leo the Great
“…not; and those that buy as though they possessed not; and those that use this world as though they used it not; for the fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–31. In the last clause but one, the Lat. runs, qui utuntur hoc mundo tanquam non utantur (as also the Vulg. and the margin of R.V., “(as not)…
Read the whole comment“For the fashion of this world passes away.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29–31.
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Gregory the Great
“Hence Paul admonishes, saying, They that buy, as though they possessed not; and they that use this world, as though they used it not (1 Cor. vii. 30).” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Which thing Paul well expresses briefly, saying, They that have wives as though they had none, and they that weep as though they wept not, and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not (1 Cor. vii. 29, 30).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Explaining this more clearly, he adds, “It remains that they that have wives be as though they had none, and they that buy as though they possessed not.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 29, 30.
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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule III.27.
Cited together in The Instructor II.3.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.