1 Corinthians Chapter 7, Verse 27
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27: δεδεσαι γυναικι μη ζητει λυσιν λελυσαι απο γυναικος μη ζητει γυναικα
27: Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou
loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.
27: Art thou bound to a wife? Seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed
from a wife? Seek not a wife.
Art thou bound unto a wife? Art thou already married? Marriage is often thus represented as a tie, a bond, etc. See "Rom 7:2".
Seek not to be loosed. Seek not a dissolution (lusin) of the connexion, either by divorce or by a separation from each other. See "1Cor 7:10, also 1Cor 7:11ff.
Art thou loosed from a wife? Art thou unmarried? It should have been rendered, free from a wife; or, art thou single? It does not imply of necessity that the person had been married, though it may have that meaning, and signify those who had been separated from a wife by her death. There is no necessity of supposing that Paul refers to persons who had divorced their wives. So Grotius, Schleusner, Doddridge, etc,
