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theless, such shall have tribulation in his heart, to keep his virgin, of the flesh. But 1 spare you. doth well.

29 This therefore I say,brethren: the time is short: it remaineth, that they also who have wives, be as if they had none :

30 And they that weep, as though they wept not and they that reoice, as if they rejoiced not; and they that buy, as thougn tney possessed not:

31 And they that use this world, as if they used it not: for the fashion of this world passeth away. 32 But I would have you to be without solicitude. He that is without a wife, is solicitous for the things

38 Therefore both he that giveth his virgin in marriage, doth well: and he that giveth her not, doth better.

39 A woman is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth: but if her husband die, she is at liberty: let her marry to whom she will: only in the Lord.

40 But more blessed shall she be, if she so remain, according to my counsel: and I think that I also have the spirit of God.

CHAP. VIII.

Things offered to idols not to be eaten. that belong to the Lord, how he that are sacrificed to idols, we OW concerning those things

may please God.

33 But he that is with a wife, is solicitous for the things of the world, how he may please his wife: and he is divided.

34 And the unmarried woman and the virgin thinketh on the things of the Lord: that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she that is married thinketh on the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up; but charity edifieth.

2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he hath not yet known as he ought to know.

3 But if any man love God, the same is known by him.

4 But as for the meats that are sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God, but one.

35 And this I speak for your profit: not to cast a snare upon you, 5 For although there be that are but for that which is decent, and called gods, either in heaven, or on which may give you power, to at-earth (for there be gods many, and tend upon the Lord, without impe- lords many :) diment.

36 But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will: he sinneth not, if she marry.

6 Yet to us there is but one God, the Father of whom are all things, and we unto him and one Lord JESUS CHRIST, by whom are all things, and we by him.

7 But there is not knowledge in every one. For some until this present with conscience of the idol, eat as a thing sacrificed to an idol: and their conscience, being weak,

37 For he that hath determined being steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but having power of his own will; and hath judged this is defiled.

Ver. 36. Let him do what he will, he sinneth not, &c. The meaning is not, as libertines would have it, that persons may do what they will, and not sin; provided they afterwards marry but that the father with regard to the giving his virgin in marriage, may do as he pleaseth; and that it will be no sin to him if she marry.

Ver. 1. Knowledge puffeth up, &c. Knowledge, without charity and humility, serveth only to puff persons up.

8 But meat doth not commend a flock, and eateth not of the milk us to God. For neither, if we eat, of the flock? · shall we have the more: nor if we eat not, shall we have the less.

9 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumbling block to the weak.

10 For if a man see him that hath knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple; shall not his conscience, being weak, be emboldened to eat those things which are sacrificed to idols?

8 Speak I these things according to man? Or doth not the law also say these things?

9 For it is written in the law of Moses: Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

10 Or doth he say this indeed for our sakes? For these things are written for our sakes: that he that plougheth should plough in hope: 11 And through thy knowledge and he that thresheth, in hope to shall the weak brother perish, for receive fruit. whom Christ hath died?

11 If we have sown unto you 12 Now when you sin thus against spiritual things, is it a great matter the brethren, and wound their weak if we reap your carnal things? consciences, you sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore if meat scandalize my brother, I will never eat flesh, lest I should scandalize my brother. CHAP. IX. Running in race, &c.

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M not I free? Am I not an apostle? Have not 1 seen CHRIST JESUS our Lord? Are not you my work in the Lord?

2 And if unto others I be not an apostle, but yet to you I am. For you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord:

3 My defence with them that do examine me is this.

4 Have not we power to eat and to drink?

5 Have we not power to carry about a woman a sister, as well as the rest of the apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or 1 only and Barnabas have not we power to do this?

12 If others be partakers of this power over you; why not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

13 Know you not, that they who work in the holy place, eat the things that are of the holy place : and they that serve the altar, partake with the altar?

14 So also the Lord ordained that they who preach the gospel, should live by the gospel.

15 But I have used none of these things. Neither have I written these things, that they should be so done unto me; for it is good for me to die, rather than any man should make my glory void."

16 For if 1 preach the gospel: it is no glory to me: for a necessity lieth upon me: for wo is unto me if I preach not the gospel.

7 Who serveth as a soldier at any 17 For if I do this thing willingly, time, at his own charges? Who I have a reward: but if against my planteth a vineyard, and eateth not will. a dispensation is committed of the fruit thereof? Who feedeth to me.

Ver. 13. If meat scandalize. That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin.

Ver. 5. A woman, c sister. Protestants have not fairly translated this text, by render ing it, a sister, a wife: whereas, it is certain, St. Paul had no wife, (Chap. vii. 7, 8.) and that he only speaks of such devout women as, according to the custom of the Jewish nation waited upon the preachers of the gospel.

Ver. 16. It is no glory. That is, I have nothing to glory of

18 What is my reward then? That preaching the gospel, I may deliver the gospel without charge, that abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For whereas I was free as to all, I made myself the servant of all: that I might gain the more.

20 And 1 became to the Jews a Jew, that I might gain the Jews.

21 To them that are under the law, as if I were under the law (whereas myself was not under the law) that I might gain them that were under the law. To them that were without the law, as if I were without the law (whereas I was not without the law of God, but was in the law of Christ) that I might gain them that were without the law.

22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I became all things to all men, that I might save all.

23 And 1 do all things for the gospel's sake: that I may be made partaker thereof.

24 Know you not that they that run in the race, all run indeed, but one receiveth the prize? So run that you may obtain.

25 And every one that striveth for the mastery, refraineth himself from all things: and they indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown: but we an incorruptible one.

26 I therefore so run, not as at an uncertainty: I so fight, not as one beating the air:

27 But I chastise my body, and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a cast-away.

CHAP. X.

We are to fly from the service of idols. Frant, brethren, that our fathers NORI would not have you igno

were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea.

2 And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea: 3 And did all eat the same spiritual food.

4 And all drank the same spiritual drink (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ,)

5 But with the most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

6 Now these things were done in a figure of us, that we should not covet evil things, as they also coveted.

7 Neither become ye idolators, as some of them: as it is written: The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

9 Neither let us tempt Christ : as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents.

10 Neither do you murmur: as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

11 Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

12 Wherefore he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed lest he fall.

13 Let no temptation take hold

Ver. 27. I chastise, &c. What will our new sectaries say to this, with all their presumptuous security? Let them open their eyes now at least, and see that their faith, which excludes all fear, is not the faith of St. Paul. See chap. x. 12.

Ver. 2. In Moses. Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in figure, by passing under the cloud, and through the sea and they partook of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here a spiritual food, because it was a figure of the true bread, which comes down from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculously brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock; because it was also a figure of Christ. Ver. 11. The ends of the world. That is, the last ages.

Ver. 13. Or, no temptation hath taken hold of you, or come upon you as yet, but what is human, or incident to man.

Ver. 13. Issue, or a way to escape.

on you, but such as is human. And shambles, eat: asking no question God is faithful, who will not suffer for conscience sake. you to be tempted above that which you are able but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able to bear it.

14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols. 15 I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

26 The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

27 If any of them that believe not, invite you, and you be willing to go; eat of any thing that is set before you, asking no question for conscience sake.

28 But if any man say: This has been sacrificed to idols; do not eat of it for his sake that told it, and for conscience sake.

16 The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the 29 Conscience, I say, not thy partaking of the body of the Lord? own, but the other's. For why is my 17 For we being many are one liberty judged by another man's bread, one body, all that partake of conscience? one bread.

18 Behold Israel according to the flesh are not they, that eat of the sacrifices, partakers of the altar? 19 What then? Do I say, that what is offered in sacrifice to idols, is any thing? Or that the idol is any thing?

20 But the things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God. And I would not that you should be made partakers with devils.

21 You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord, and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord,and of the table of devils. 22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.

23 All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.

24 Let no man seek his own, put that which is another's.

25 Whatsoever is sold in the

30 If I partake with thanksgiving; why am 1 evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks ?

31 Therefore whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do ; do all to the glory of God.

32 Be without offence to the Jews and to the gentiles, and to the church of God:

33 As I also in all things please all men, not seeking that which is profitable to myself, but to many; that they may be saved.

CHAP. XI.

Women must have a covering over their heads.

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E ye followers of me, as I also

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that in all things you are mindful of me: and keep my ordinances as have delivered them to you.

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3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ: and the head of the woman is the man: and the head of Christ is God.

Ver. 16. Which we bless. Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking of the body and blood of Christ, in the sacred mysteries, and becoming thereby one mystical body with Christ. From whence he infers, ver. 21, that they who are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic sacrifice, and sacrament, must not be made partakers with devils, by eating of the meats sacrificed to them.

Ver. 17. One bread; or, as it may be rendered agreeably both to the Latin and Greek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body, who partake of that one bread. For 'tis by our communicating with Christ, and with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed into one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread, compounded of many grains of corn, closely united together.

4 Every man praying or prophe- sing you, that you come together sying with his head covered, dis- not for the better, but for the worse. graceth his head. 18 For first of all I hear that

5 But every woman praying or when you come together in the prophesying with her head not co-church, there are schisms among vered, disgraceth her head for it you, and in part I believe it. is all one as if she were shaven.

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19 For there must be also here

6 For if a woman be not cover-sies that they also, who are aped; let her be shorn. But if it be proved, may be made manifest a shame to a woman to be shorn among you. or made bald, let her cover her head. 7 The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

8 For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man.

9 For the man was not created for the woman, but the woman for the man.

10 Therefore ought the woman to have a power over her head because of the angels.

11 But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

12 For as the woman is of the man, so also is the man by the woman: but all things of God.

13 You yourselves judge: doth it become a woman, to pray unto God, uncovered?

14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?

15 But if a woman nourish her hair, it is a glory to her, for her hair is given to her for a covering.

20 When you come therefore together into one place, it is not now to eat the Lord's supper.

21 For every one taketh before his own supper to eat. And one indeed is hungry, and another is drunk.

22 What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God: and put them to shame that have not! What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.

23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord JESUS, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

24 And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye and eat: this is my body which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me.

25 In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me."

16 But if any man seem to be 26 For as often as you shall eat contentious, we have no such cus- this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the

tom, nor the church of God.

17 Now this I ordain: not prai-Lord, until he come.

Ver. 10. A power. That is, a veil or covering, as a sign that she is under the power of her husband; and this, as the apostle adds, because of the Angels, who are present in the assemblies of the faithful.

Ver. 19. There must be heresies, by reason of the pride and perversity of man's heart; not by God's will or appointment; who nevertheless draws good out of this evil, manifesting by that occasion, who are the good and firm Christians, and making their faith more remarkable.

Ver. 20. The Lord's supper. So the apostle here calls the charity feasts observed by the primitive Christians: and reprehends the abuses of the Corinthians, on these occasions: which were the more criminal, because these feasts were accompanied with the celebrating the eucharistic sacrifice and sacrament.

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