1 Corinthians 7:6

But I speak this by permission,.... Referring either to what he had said before, though not to all; not to Co1 7:2 that for the avoiding of fornication, every man should make use of his own wife, and…

But I speak this by permission ... - It is not quite certain whether the word “this” (τοῦτο touto), in this verse, refers to what precedes, or to what follows. On this commentators are divided. The…

I speak this by permission, etc. - It was a constant custom of the more conscientious rabbins, to make a difference between the things which they enjoined on their own judgment, and those which they…

The apostle comes now, as a faithful and skilful casuist, to answer some cases of conscience which the Corinthians had proposed to him. Those were things whereof they wrote to him, Co1 7:1. As the…

by permission i.e. by way of permissionon the Apostle's part to the Corinthian Church, not of God to him, as it is sometimes misunderstood. The original signification of the word thus rendered is…