{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-398","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":7,"chapter_to":7,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":16,"verse_to":16},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrosiaster</b>: Paul says this because it is always possible that the unbelieving partner will come to believe if he or she does not detest the name of Christ.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thine husband?\" This again refers to that expression, \"let her not leave him.\" That is, \"if he makes no disturbance, remain,\" saith he, \"for there is even profit in this; remain and advise and give counsel and persuade.\" For no teacher will have such power to prevail as a wife. And neither, on one hand, doth he lay any necessity upon her and absolutely demand the point of her, that he may not again do what would be too painful; nor, on the other, doth he tell her to despair: but he leaves the matter in suspense through the uncertainty of the future, saying, \"For how knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O husband whether thou shalt save thy wife?\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 19</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: If these things may happen to those women also who, having attained the faith while in (the state of) Gentile matrimony, continue in that state, still they are excused, as having been \"apprehended by God\" in these very circumstances; and they are bidden to persevere in their married state, and are sanctified, and have hope of \"making a gain\" held out to them.<br/><i>— To His Wife Book II</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0a680864b7cacd7d451be1276048cfa65f43f53be6b769b89c471d0e21093346","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":398,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"e2ac74114bcccfbe7328804542561ceef139d04aefe80259752bffc422d08f55","translator":null,"work":null}