1 Corinthians 7:22

For he that is called in the Lord,.... Which is to be understood, not of any civil calling, or of calling to an office; or of the outward call by the ministry of the word only; but of an internal,…

For he that is called in the Lord - He that is called by the Lord; he that becomes a Christian. Being a servant - A slave when he is converted. Is the Lord’s freeman - Margin, “Made free”…

For he that is called - The man who, being a slave, is converted to the Christian faith, is the Lord's freeman; his condition as a slave does not vitiate any of the privileges to which he is entitled…

Here the apostle takes occasion to advise them to continue in the state and condition in which Christianity found them, and in which they became converts to it. And here,

I. He lays down this rule in…

the Lord's freeman Rather, freedman, the Latin libertus. So Beza, Calvin and the Vulgate, and the margin of our version. The English translators generally seem to have missed this point.

Christ's…