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This tri-sectioned volume offers three short commentaries on Pauline Epistles that were written with a particular purpose and called for by a specific need. The commentary on 1 Corinthians 7 must have been a study item for Luther himself, for in it he gives himself the opportunity to come to grips with the whole matter of celibacy versus marriage. The second item is an extended series of sermons...

have wives, some should not have wives,” thus making “some” out of “each.” But more of this later. St. Paul goes on to say: 3. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4. For the wife does not rule over her own body, but the husband does; likewise the husband does not rule over his own body, but the wife does. Here St. Paul instructs married people in their conduct toward one another with respect to marital duty and speaks of “conjugal rights.”
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