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It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

On entend dire généralement qu'il y a parmi vous de l'impudicité, et une impudicité telle qu'elle ne se rencontre pas même chez les païens; c'est au point que l'un de vous a la femme de son père.

KJV

It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew

    a third deceit. So the man who had married his father’s wife afterwards repented him of this sin, [ 1 Cor 5:1 ] but again the Devil resolved so to augment this very sorrow of repentance, that his sorrow being made too abundant might swallow up the sorrower. Something like this to…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)

    ractu ruinas animarum factas audivimus, et tales fornicationes perpetratas, quales nec inter gentes (I Cor. V, 1) . Ita plane, ut cum contigit puerum adultum esse, et puellam parvulam; et e contrario, si puella maturae aetatis, et puer sit [Col. 0299A] tenerae; et per virum cogn…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 129 (Migne)

    (Act. XIII) : idemque Apostolus stupratorem novercae suae sola missione Epistolae daemoni tradidit (I Cor. V, 1) , et rursum, cum voluit, restauravit dicens: «Confirmate in illum charitatem, ne forte abundantiori tristitia absorbeatur, qui ejusmodi est (II Cor. II, 7) .» Simili…

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