Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 7:39 - 7:39

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Robertson Word Pictures - 1 Corinthians 7:39 - 7:39


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For so long time as her husband liveth (Ephesians' hoson chronon zēi ho anēr autēs). While he lives (tōi zōnti andri) Paul says in Rom 7:2. This is the ideal and is pertinent today when husbands meet their ex-wives and wives meet their ex-husbands. There is a screw loose somewhere. Paul here treats as a sort of addendum the remarriage of widows. He will discuss it again in 1Ti 5:9-13 and then he will advise younger widows to marry. Paul leaves her free here also to be married again, “only in the Lord” (monon en Kuriōi). Every marriage ought to be “in the Lord.”

To be married (gamēthēnai) is first aorist passive infinitive followed by the dative relative hōi with unexpressed antecedent toutōi.