1 Corinthians 7:4 (WEB)
The wife doesn’t have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise also the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
Fathers and councils · 12
Ambrose of Milan
““The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4.
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Gregory the Great
“…asunder, seeing that it is written, The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife (1 Cor. vii. 4).” — the author cites it
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John Chrysostom
“Hearest thou not Paul saying, “The husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife,”and setting down laws common to both?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4.
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Jerome
“…of the apostle, “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and likewise, also, the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife,” we have subjoined the following: “The entire question relates to those who are living in wedlock, whether it is lawful for them to put away their wives, a…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4.
Read the whole comment“But because “there is a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,” and because “the wife hath not power of her own body,” and because the apostle says “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called” in the Lord, and because he that is under the yoke ought so to run…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Unto which faith the Apostle allows so great right, as to call it “power,” saying, “The woman hath not power of her own body, but the man; again in like manner also the man hath not power of his own body, but the woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4
Read the whole comment“For thus far also, “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the man: in like manner also the man hath not power of his own body, but the woman.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4
Read the whole comment“But unto the faith of chastity pertains that saying, “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4
Read the whole comment“And in doing this the husbands did not commit adultery, in that they obeyed their wives in that matter which had regard to conjugal duty, according to what the Apostle saith: “The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4.
Read the whole comment“…to supply the defect of her own nature, and by that law of which the apostle says, “Likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife,” could, as a wife, make use of him for childbearing by another, when she could not do so in her own person.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 4.
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Clement of Alexandria
“This eleventh chapter of the third book abounds in Scriptural citations and expositions, and is to be specially praised for asserting the purity of married life, in connection with the inspired law concerning fasting and abstinence (1 Cor. vii. 3–5), laid down by the reasonably ascetic St. Paul.” — the author cites it
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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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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in The City of God XVI.25.
Cited together in On the Good of Marriage Chapter 6.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 11.
Cited together in Concerning Widows Chapter 11.