1 Corinthians 7:5 (WEB)
Don’t deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn’t tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Fathers and councils · 19
Irenaeus of Lyons
“But further, in another place he says: “That Satan tempt you not for your incontinence.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
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Jerome
“Let thembegin with short periods of release from the marriage bond, and give themselves unto prayer, that when they have tasted the sweets of chastity they may desire the perpetual possession of that wherewith they were temporarily delighted.” — editor's note: Ferias nuptiarum. The reference is to 1 Cor. vii. 5.
Read the whole comment“And to the married he says:“Be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
Read the whole comment“When I spoke thus it is clear that I relied on the words of the apostle: “Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to…prayer.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
Read the whole comment“Your former wife, who is now your sister and fellow-servant, has told me that, acting on the apostolic precept, you and she lived apart by consent that you might give yourselves to prayer; but that after a time your feet sank beneath you as if resting on water and indeed—to speak plainly—gave way altogether.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
“Man separates, when we dismiss the first wife because we desire a second; but it is God who separates, when by common consent [1 Cor 7:5], for the sake of serving God, we so have wives as though we had none [1 Cor 7:29].” — the author cites it
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Timothy of Alexandria
“1 Cor. vii. 5.” — the author cites it
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“…to God’s ordinance, and not of wantonness for the sake of unbounded license; who recognise seasons of abstinence, that they may give themselves unto prayer; who in our assemblies bring clean bodies as well as clean garments into the Church; who have entered upon matrimony for the procreation of children, but not…” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“But to the weak he became weak, when, by way of permission, not of command, he allowed those who could not contain themselves to return together again, or when he fed the Corinthians with milk and not with meat, and says that he was with them in weakness and fear and much trembling.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. vii. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…wife; who is content with his own, or even without his own, in such wise as is lawful, and as Apostolical discipline permitteth, with consent of both, or when she is not yet married.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
Read the whole comment““Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
Read the whole comment“…it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer: and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“…harmony, saying, To virgins, the things of virgins; and to those who love the way of abstinence, the things of abstinence; and to those who are married, the things of an honourable marriage; thus assigning to each its own virtues and an honourable recompense.” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Cor. vii. 2, 5.
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John Chrysostom
“Christ by Paul commanded “that a woman depart not from her husband,and not to defraud one another, except by consent;”but some from a love of continence forsooth, having withdrawn from their own husbands, as though they were doing something devout, have driven them to adultery.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 5.
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Tertullian
“Accordingly, the apostle added (the recommendation of) a temporary abstinence for the sake of adding an efficacy to prayers, that we might know that what is profitable “for a time” should be always practised by us, that it may be always profitable.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vii. 5.
Read the whole comment“For is not continence withal superior to virginity, whether it be the continence of the widowed, or of those who, by consent, have already renounced the common disgrace (which matrimony involves)?” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. vii. 5. Comp. ad Ux., l. i. c. viii.; de Ex. Cast., c. i.
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Gregory the Great
“Concerning which supplication Paul also admonishes, saying, Defraud ye not one the other except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to prayer (1 Cor. vii. 5).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“Et rursus: “Unusquisque autem suam uxorem habeat, ne tenter vos Satanas.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. vii. 2, 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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Cross-references · 27
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
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Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Bede on Mark 10:1–12 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in On Exhortation to Chastity Chapter 9.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 78.