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  • From: "Harold R. Holmyard III" <hholmyard AT ont.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: 2 Cor 6.14-7.1 in its context
  • Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 10:47:27 -0500


Dear Doug,
The difference between 2 Cor 6:14 and 1 Cor 7:12-15 is that the former
text forbids one to undertake a union with unbelievers, while in the latter
a union of marriage already exists. In 1 Cor 7:39 Paul does advise a widow
to marry only a believer if she remarries. 1 Corinthians 7:12-15 may
address, for the most part, marriages where one spouse became a believer
while the other remained an unbeliever. Paul counsels the believer not to
dissolve the marriage on this ground, even though in the OT that was the
practice in Ezra and Nehemiah. The situation differs from the OT in that
Christians are not born Christians, whereas Jews were born Jews. God had
given Jews rules about whom to marry.

Yours,
Harold Holmyard






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