Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Now concerning. The heads of the Church of Corinth had written to Saint Paul, desiring to know whether he thought it more expedient to marry or not. This was a question which the sages of antiquity had frequently taken into consideration. To this question Saint Paul here delivers his opinion. Calmet.—Others, with greater probability, suppose the chief question proposed to Saint Paul was, whether they were not bound, upon their conversion, to abstain from their infidel wives. Saint Jerome cont. Jovin. c. iv. Saint John Chrysostom in hunc. locum. hom. xix.—To this he answers in verse 12 and 13.—It is good. That is, according to the style of the Scriptures, it is better, if we consider the advantage of every particular, and so forth Witham.