Are you bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Paul says that no one should be divorced from his wife except in a case of fornication. As for the unmarried, what advantage is there in giving in to the lusts of the flesh? Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Seek not a wife.
These words carry no contradiction to what had been said before but rather the most entire agreement with them. For he says in that place also, Except it be by consent: as here he says, Are you bound unto a wife? Seek not separation. This is no contradiction. For its being against consent makes a dissolution: but if with consent both live continently, it is no dissolution.
Then, lest this should seem to be laying down a law, he subjoins, 1 Corinthians 7:28 but if you marry, you have not sinned. He next alleges the existing state of things, the present distress, the shortness of the time, and the affliction. For marriage draws along with it many things, which indeed he has glanced at, as well here as also in the discourse about continence: there, by saying, the wife has not power over herself; and here, by the expression, You are bound.
But if and thou marry, you have not sinned. He i...
And advises the continuance therein rather than the dissolution there of.
Restore what God has put an end to? Why do you, by repeating the servitude of matrimony, spurn the liberty which is offered you? "You have been bound to a wife".
sap the apostle; "seek not loosing. You have been loosed from a wife;.
However, touching second marriage, we know plainly that the apostle has pronounced: "Thou t been loosed from a wife; seek not a wife. But if thou shalt marry, thou wilt not sin."
