Seneca: ‘No woman need blush to break up her marriage since the most distinguished ladies have adopted the practice of reckoning the year not by the names of the consuls but by the names of their husbands. They divorce in order to remarry. They remarry in order to divorce.’ …
Verse 6a is the key text; it is just one word in Greek: ‘He has risen’.
Athenaeus (A.D. 200) quoted Demosthenes (500 years beforehand): ‘We keep mistresses for pleasure, concubines for daily concubinage, but wives in order to produce children legitimately and to have a trustworthy guardian of our domestic property.’ 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 is outside marriage; 1 Corinthians 7:1-9 deals with sexual relations within …
Tony Abbott once described his Work Choices policy as ‘dead, buried, cremated.’ It was not one of his most elegant descriptions of anything, but he made his point. Matthew makes his point here too, as he tells of how Jesus was dead and buried. It is crucial for the …
In explaining the cross, the apostle Paul demonstrates that it reveals both God’s righteousness and His mercy, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus (Rom.3:25-26). At Calvary, Christ satisfied the justice of God, and opened up the mercy of God. That …
The context seems to be a Greek downplaying of the body, and listening to some superficial slogans about freedom.
This portion of Scripture excluded Israel Folau from playing rugby for Australia and has been outlawed by the Victorian government since February 2021. Martin Luther: ‘The law reveals the disease; the gospel ministers the medicine.’ Samuel Bolton: ‘The law sends us to the Gospel, that we may be justified, …
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) managed to get himself into theological and moral trouble throughout most of his life. When he wrote Sic et Non (‘Yes and No’) to argue that the Early Church Fathers did not always agree with one another, he was being provocative, as usual, but was more accurate …
‘Ten commandments or a hundred lawyers?’ The trial of Socrates was over 400 years before Paul wrote to the Corinthians, and it was at Athens, not Corinth, but there were 500 jurors. Dio Chrysostom wrote of ‘lawyers innumerable twisting judgments’ in Corinth.
In dealing with what to do with the man guilty of incest, Paul says that Christ is our Passover lamb (note Exodus 12).
