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bible.reafit.ai

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Voici donc ce que j'estime bon, à cause des temps difficiles qui s'approchent: il est bon à un homme d'être ainsi.

KJV

I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, [I say], that [it is] good for a man so to be.

Patristic reading

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  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    out the flesh while living in the flesh is to live as an angel rather than as a man": and a gloss on 1 Cor. 7:26, "For the present necessity," says that "virginity is the portion of the angels." Since then an aureole corresponds to virginity, it would seem due to the angels. Obje…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 96 (Migne)

    o, tanquam non utantur. Praeterit enim figura hujus mundi. Volo autem vos sine sollicitudine esse (I Cor. VII, 25-32) . Conjugati qui hoc praeceptum servant Apostoli, intra Ecclesiam sunt, quia sub disciplina apostolorum sunt. Si aliquis inter eos deliquerit, sicut ab Ecclesia…

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