Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 7:20

Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 7:20 - 7:20

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - 1 Corinthians 7:20 - 7:20

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20. κλήσει. The word (see note on ch. 1Co 1:26) does not mean calling in our modern sense of the life to which a man has been called; but refers to God’s act. ‘Let every man abide,’ not in the condition which God placed him by the call, but in the condition in which that call found him. For God’s call is not intended to change our earthly position, but to enable us to serve God in it. The passage cited by so many commentators from Ovid’s Fasti ‘Qua positus fueris, in statione mane’ (or rather manes) relates to an altogether different subject. But Aristophanes (Wasps, 1431) has ἔρδοι τις ἣν ἕκαστος εἰδείη τέχνην. Cp. (Cicero ‘quam quisque novit artem in ea se exerceat.’ And Marcus Aurelius Meditations IV. 31 τὸ τέχνιον ὃ ἔμαθες φίλει, τούτῳ προσαναπαύου.