Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
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Gill's Exposition
Forbidding to marry,.... Which points out not the Encratites, Montanists, and Manichees, who spoke against marriage; but the Papists, who forbid it to their priests under a pretence of purity and…
Barnes' Notes
Forbidding to marry - That is, “They will depart from the faith through the hypocritical teaching - of those who forbid to marry;” see notes on 1Ti 4:2. This does not necessarily mean that they would…
Adam Clarke
Forbidding to marry - These hypocritical priests pretending that a single life was much more favorable to devotion, and to the perfection of the Christian life. This sentiment was held by the Essenes,…
We have here a prophecy of the apostasy of the latter times, which he had spoken of as a thing expected and taken for granted among Christians, 2 Th. 2.
I. In the close of the foregoing chapter, we…
Cambridge Bible
forbidding to marry See on 1Ti 4:1 and Introduction, pp. 46, 48, 50, 51. From the verb -forbidding" must be supplied by the rule called zeugma(Winer, § 661 e), the positive -bidding" with the…
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