1 Coríntios 7
Origen of Alexandria · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
1 Coríntios 7:2
You have given up your wife, to whom you are bound. This is a big step you have taken. You are not abusing her, you say, but claiming that you can be chaste and live more purely. But look how your poor wife is being destroyed as a result, because she is unable to endure your purity! You should sleep with your wife, not for your sake but for hers. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.33.23-25
1 Coríntios 7:4
If this is so, a man should be able to refrain from exercising his authority [to receive his spouse's body]. And isn't a woman capable of doing likewise? — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.33.41-46
1 Coríntios 7:5
The mysteries of marriage ought to be performed with holiness, deliberately and without disorderly passions. — ON PRAYER 2.2
1 Coríntios 7:7
Marriage is a spiritual gift, but not if it is contracted with unbelievers. The Spirit of God is not given to dwell in those who are not believers. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.34.42-45
1 Coríntios 7:14
Husband and wife are one in the same way that wine and water are one when they are mixed together. Just as the believing partner sanctifies the unbelieving one, so the unbelieving partner corrupts the believing one. This is why a man who is not yet married should consider very carefully and either not marry at all or marry only in the Lord. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.36.2-5
1 Coríntios 7:20
In itself, the state in which we are called is a matter of indifference. An unmarried man, for example, can live a life of purity, but he may also be deeply involved in sin. The same is true for a married man as well. If it were only Christians who practiced celibacy, then it would be possible to say that it was a pure and divine state. But the Marcionites also practice it, though not in the same way as Christians. Christians do it in order to please God, but the Marcionites do it in order not to succumb to the Creator. Celibacy is honorable only when it is clothed with the life and behavior of the church, with pure knowledge and truth. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.37.35-43
1 Coríntios 7:21
I am a slave of that affair and care to which I am bound. For I know that it is written that whatever one is conquered by, to that he is delivered as a slave.… Who will free me from this most unseemly slavery except him who said, "If the Son shall make you free, you shall be free indeed".? — HOMILIES 13
1 Coríntios 7:23
Christ came and "bought us back" when we were serving that lord to whom we sold ourselves by sinning. So he appears to have recovered as his own those whom he created. He has redeemed a people who chose to belong to another, who sought another lord for themselves by sinning. — HOMILIES ON EXODUS 6
1 Coríntios 7:25
Some rules are given as commandments of God, while others are more flexible and left by God to the decision of the individual. The first kind are those commandments which pertain to salvation. The others are better, because even if we do not keep them, we shall still be saved. There is no merit in doing what is obligatory, but there is in doing that which is optional. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.39.2-6
1 Coríntios 7:28
The virgin is spared earthly troubles and set free by her purity, as she awaits the blessed Bridegroom. — COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 3.39.51-52