For I would that all men, &c.— "As for the main question that we are now upon, I could wish that all men were in this respect even as myself; that all Christians could as easily bear the severities of a single life, in the present circumstances, and exercise as resolute command over their natural desires." Common sense requires us thus to limit the Apostle's expression; for it would be a most flagrant absurdity to suppose that St. Paul wished marriage might entirelycease. It shews, therefore, how unfair and improper it is in various cases to strain the Apostle's words to the utmost rigour, as if he perpetually used the most critical exactness. See Doddridge and Whitby.
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1 Corinthians 7:7
7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.