The time is short— "Is contracted within very narrow limits." The word συνεσταλμενος properly imports this, being a metaphor taken from furling or gathering up a sail. The Apostle probably said this from a prophetic view of the approaching persecution under Nero; while in its general import it may respect the shortness of our duration in this world; which should guard us against too fond an attachment to any earthly relation or possession. Somewould render this clause, "The time, as to what remains, is short; when both they, &c." See Hammond, Grotius, and Heylin.
Related Commentaries of 1 Corinthians 7:29
1 Corinthians 7:29
29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;