But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
This I say - a summing up the practical inference from what precedes (1 Corinthians 15:50).
The time - the season х ho (G3588) kairos (G2540)] of this present dispensation up to the Lord's coming (Romans 13:11). He uses the Greek which the Lord used in Luke 21:8; Mark 13:33.
Short - literally, contracted.
It remaineth. A B Delta 'Aleph (') read 'the season is shortened in order that henceforth both they,' etc. - i:e., the effect which the shortening of the time ought to have is, 'that for the remaining time both they,' etc. G, Cyprian, and Vulgate support the English version.
As though they had none - in real or permanent possession; not making idols of them.