Ambrosiaster

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

1,043 passages across 16 books of the Bible · Who was this?

Commentary

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:8
    Paul is rebuking the people whose wrongful behavior has started the quarrels. Not only are they liable to be charged for the fraud which they have committed; they also share in the fault of those who, compelled by their injurious or fraudulent actions, call upon unbelievers to pass judgment.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9
    Paul indicates that they are not sinning unknowingly, and so it is that much harder to excuse them.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  3. 1 Corinthians 6:10
    Paul did not say this because the Corinthians did not know it already. He was rather reawakening their reverence for the divine commandment and bringing them closer to readiness for the kingdom of heaven.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  4. 1 Corinthians 6:11
    The Corinthians had received all the benefits of purity in their baptism, which is the foundation of the truth of the gospel. In baptism the believer is washed clean from all sins and is made righteous in the name of the Lord, and through the Spirit of God he is adopted as God’s child. With these words, Paul is reminding them how great and how special is the grace which they have received in the true tradition. But afterward, by thinking which is contrary to this baptismal rule of faith, they had stripped themselves of these benefits. For this reason he is trying to bring them back to their original way of thinking, so that they can recover what they had once received.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  5. 1 Corinthians 6:12
    By “all things” Paul presumably means those things which are contained in the natural law and which were also lawful for his fellow apostles. It would not refer to the law of Moses, because Moses forbade many things owing to the hardness of heart of an unbelieving and stiff-necked people.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  6. 1 Corinthians 6:13
    The body, being dedicated to God, will be rewarded with a spiritual reward for the merit of its ruler, which is the rational soul.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  7. 1 Corinthians 6:16
    Paul says this because the person who involves himself in contamination is united with the person with whom he involves himself. Sexual immorality makes them both one, in nature as well as in sin. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

  8. 1 Corinthians 6:17
    The Spirit of God is shared between God and human beings when we are united to the Lord.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  9. 1 Corinthians 6:18
    If someone hangs himself or kills himself with a dagger, he does not sin against his body but against his soul, on which he inflicts violence. But to fornicate is a sin of the body which touches both the body and the soul.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  10. 1 Corinthians 6:19
    Paul said this with the intention that we should keep our bodies uncontaminated, so that the Holy Spirit may dwell in them.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  11. 1 Corinthians 6:20
    Someone who has been bought does not have the power to make decisions, but the person who bought him does. And because we were bought for a very high price, we ought to serve our master all the more, so that the offense from which he has bought our release may not turn us back over to death.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  12. 1 Corinthians 7:1
    Stirred up by the depraved minds of the false apostles, who in their hypocrisy were teaching that marriage ought to be rejected in order that they might appear to be holier than others, the Corinthians wrote to Paul to ask him about these things. Because they were unhappy about this teaching, they ignored everything else and concentrated exclusively on this.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  13. 1 Corinthians 7:3
    Husband and wife must submit to one another in this matter, since the two of them are one flesh and one will, according to the law of nature.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  14. 1 Corinthians 7:6
    No one should be forced to do something unlawful on the ground that he is forbidden to do what is lawful. It is up to each person to discern which path to follow.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  15. 1 Corinthians 7:7
    Paul’s intention is to avoid fornication, not to put hindrances in the way of those seeking a higher way of life.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  16. 1 Corinthians 7:11
    A woman may not marry if she has left her husband because of fornication or apostasy, if he wishes to have sexual relations with her. But if the husband turns away from the faith or desires to have extramarital sexual relations, the wife may neither marry another nor return to him. The husband should not divorce his wife, but one should add the clause “except for fornication.”

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  17. 1 Corinthians 7:13
    Paul says this in the case of two Gentiles, one of whom has become a believer. Normally, a pagan detests Christianity, and a Christian does not want to be contaminated by paganism, which is why Paul says that if they are happy to stay together, they should continue to do so.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  18. 1 Corinthians 7:14
    These unbelievers have the benefit of good will, which protects them from detesting the name of Christ.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  19. 1 Corinthians 7:15
    A marriage contracted without devotion to God is not binding, and for that reason it is not a sin if it is abandoned because of God. But the unbelieving partner sins both against God and against the marriage, because he or she is unwilling to live in a marriage relationship dedicated to God. It is not right to go to court over this because the one who leaves the marriage is doing so out of hatred for God, and for this reason he or she is not to be considered worthy of such attention.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

  20. 1 Corinthians 7:16
    Paul says this because it is always possible that the unbelieving partner will come to believe if he or she does not detest the name of Christ.

    COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES

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