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Post by Cepha on May 18, 2009 16:21:12 GMT -5
Let's look at what that scripture means...
Sanctified (105 Occurrences)
Matthew 6:9 Thus therefore pray ye: Our Father who art in the heavens, let thy name be sanctified, (DBY)
Matthew 23:17 Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? (ASV NAS)
John 10:36 do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world,'You blaspheme,' because I said,'I am the Son of God?' (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS NAS)
John 17:19 For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
Acts 20:32 Now, brothers, I entrust you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' (WEB KJV WEY ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
Romans 12:1 I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service; (YLT)
Romans 15:16 that I should be a servant of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles, serving as a priest the Good News of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be made acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Corinthians 1:2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours: (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Corinthians 6:11 Such were some of you, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Corinthians 7:14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS NIV)
1 Thessalonians 4:3 for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, (See NIV)
1 Timothy 4:5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
2 Timothy 2:21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS)
Hebrews 2:11 For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Hebrews 10:10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Hebrews 10:14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV)
Hebrews 10:29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will he be judged worthy of, who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? (WEB KJV ASV DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)
1 Peter 1:2 according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied! (See RSV)
Jude 1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: (WEB KJV WBS YLT)
Revelation 22:11 Let him that does unrighteously do unrighteously still; and let the filthy make himself filthy still; and let him that is righteous practise righteousness still; and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still. (DBY YLT)
Genesis 2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. (KJV WBS NAS)
Exodus 19:10 And Jehovah saith unto Moses, 'Go unto the people; and thou hast sanctified them to-day and to-morrow, and they have washed their garments, (YLT)
Exodus 19:14 Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Exodus 19:23 And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'The people 'is' unable to come up unto mount Sinai, for Thou -- Thou hast protested to us, saying, Make a border 'for' the mount, then thou hast sanctified it.' (YLT)
Exodus 28:41 and thou hast clothed Aaron thy brother with them, and his sons with him, and hast anointed them, and hast consecrated their hand, and hast sanctified them, and they have been priests to Me. (YLT)
Exodus 29:27 and thou hast sanctified the breast of the wave-offering, and the leg of the heave-offering, which hath been waved, and which hath been lifted up from the ram of the consecration, of that which 'is' for Aaron, and of that which 'is' for his sons; (YLT)
Exodus 29:37 seven days thou dost make atonement for the altar, and hast sanctified it, and the altar hath been most holy; all that is coming against the altar is holy. (YLT)
Exodus 29:43 There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)
Exodus 29:44 And I have sanctified the tent of meeting, and the altar, and Aaron and his sons I sanctify for being priests to Me, (YLT)
Exodus 30:29 and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy; (YLT)
Exodus 30:30 and Aaron and his sons thou dost anoint, and hast sanctified them for being priests to Me. (YLT)
Exodus 40:10 and thou hast anointed the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctified the altar, and the altar hath been most holy; (YLT)
Exodus 40:11 and thou hast anointed the laver and its base, and sanctified it. (YLT)
Exodus 40:13 and thou hast clothed Aaron with the holy garments, and anointed him, and sanctified him, and he hath acted as priest to Me. (YLT)
Leviticus 8:10 Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and sanctified them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Leviticus 8:15 He killed it; and Moses took the blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar, and sanctified it, to make atonement for it. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Leviticus 8:30 Moses took some of the anointing oil, and some of the blood which was on the altar, and sprinkled it on Aaron, on his garments, and on his sons, and on his sons' garments with him, and sanctified Aaron, his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Leviticus 11:44 For I 'am' Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I 'am' holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth; (YLT)
Leviticus 20:7 And ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I 'am' Jehovah your God; (YLT)
Leviticus 21:8 and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy 'am' I, Jehovah, sanctifying you. (YLT)
Leviticus 22:32 and ye do not pollute My holy name, and I have been hallowed in the midst of the sons of Israel; I 'am' Jehovah, sanctifying you, (See NAS)
Leviticus 27:15 And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his. (KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Leviticus 27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him. (KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Numbers 3:13 for Mine 'is' every first-born, in the day of My smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I have sanctified to Myself every first-born in Israel, from man unto beast; Mine they are; I 'am' Jehovah.' (YLT NAS)
Numbers 7:1 It happened on the day that Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle, and had anointed it and sanctified it, with all its furniture, and the altar with all its vessels, and had anointed and sanctified them; (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Numbers 8:17 For all the firstborn among the children of Israel are mine, both man and animal. On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for myself. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS)
Numbers 20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Deuteronomy 32:51 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel. (KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
1 Samuel 7:1 The men of Kiriath Jearim came, and fetched up the ark of Yahweh, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
1 Samuel 16:5 He said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
2 Samuel 8:11 also them did king David sanctify to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold which he sanctified of all the nations which he subdued: (YLT)
1 Kings 7:51 And it is complete -- all the work that king Solomon hath made 'for' the house of Jehovah, and Solomon bringeth in the sanctified things of David his father; the silver, and the gold, and the vessels he hath put in the treasuries of the house of Jehovah. (YLT)
1 Kings 8:64 On that day hath the king sanctified the middle of the court that 'is' before the house of Jehovah, for he hath made there the burnt-offering, and the present, and the fat of the peace-offerings; for the altar of brass that 'is' before Jehovah 'is' too little to contain the burnt-offering, and the present, and the fat of the peace-offerings. (YLT)
1 Kings 15:15 and he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of Jehovah, silver, and gold, and vessels. (YLT)
2 Kings 12:4 And Jehoash saith unto the priests, 'All the money of the sanctified things that is brought in to the house of Jehovah, the money of him who is passing over, each the money of his valuation, all the money that it goeth up on the heart of a man to bring in to the house of Jehovah, (YLT)
2 Kings 12:18 and Jehoash king of Judah taketh all the sanctified things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had sanctified, and his own sanctified things, and all the gold that is found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah and of the house of the king, and sendeth to Hazael king of Aram, and he goeth up from off Jerusalem. (YLT)
1 Chronicles 15:14 So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
1 Chronicles 18:11 also them hath king David sanctified to Jehovah with the silver and the gold that he hath taken from all the nations, from Edom, and from Moab, and from the sons of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from Amalek. (YLT)
1 Chronicles 23:13 The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses; and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons, for ever, to burn incense before Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, for ever. (See JPS)
1 Chronicles 26:26 This Shelomith and his brethren 'are' over all the treasures of the holy things, that David the king, and heads of the fathers, even heads of thousands, and of hundreds, and heads of the host, sanctified; (YLT)
1 Chronicles 26:27 from the battles, even from the spoil they sanctified to strengthen the house of Jehovah; (YLT)
1 Chronicles 26:28 and all that Samuel the seer, and Saul son of Kish, and Abner son of Ner, and Joab son of Zeruiah sanctified, every one sanctifying 'any thing -- it is' by the side of Shelomith and his brethren. (YLT)
2 Chronicles 5:1 And all the work that Solomon made for the house of Jehovah is finished, and Solomon bringeth in the sanctified things of David his father, and the silver, and the gold, and all the vessels he hath put among the treasures of the house of God. (YLT)
2 Chronicles 5:11 It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions; (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT NAS RSV)
2 Chronicles 7:16 For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually. (KJV WBS YLT)
2 Chronicles 7:20 Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations. (KJV WBS YLT)
2 Chronicles 15:18 And he bringeth in the sanctified things of his father, and his own sanctified things, to the house of God, silver, and gold, and vessels. (YLT)
2 Chronicles 26:18 and they stand up against Uzziah the king, and say to him, 'Not for thee, O Uzziah, to make perfume to Jehovah, but for priests, sons of Aaron, who are sanctified to make perfume; go forth from the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed, and 'it is' not to thee for honour from Jehovah God.' (YLT)
2 Chronicles 29:15 They gathered their brothers, and sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the words of Yahweh, to cleanse the house of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
2 Chronicles 29:17 Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh; and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days: and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
2 Chronicles 29:19 Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away when he trespassed, have we prepared and sanctified; and behold, they are before the altar of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)
2 Chronicles 29:33 And the sanctified things 'are' oxen six hundred, and sheep three thousand. (YLT)
2 Chronicles 29:34 But the priests were too few, so that they could not flay all the burnt offerings: therefore their brothers the Levites helped them, until the work was ended, and until the priests had sanctified themselves; for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
2 Chronicles 30:3 For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)
2 Chronicles 30:8 Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY WBS YLT RSV)
2 Chronicles 30:15 Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the house of Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
2 Chronicles 30:17 For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves: therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to Yahweh. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT RSV)
2 Chronicles 30:24 For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS RSV)
2 Chronicles 31:6 And the sons of Israel and Judah, those dwelling in cities of Judah, they also a tithe of herd and flock, and a tithe of the holy things that are sanctified to Jehovah their God, have brought in, and they give -- heaps, heaps; (YLT)
2 Chronicles 31:18 and those who were reckoned by genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their office of trust they sanctified themselves in holiness. (WEB KJV ASV WBS)
2 Chronicles 35:3 and saith to the Levites -- who are teaching all Israel -- who are sanctified to Jehovah, 'Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon son of David king of Israel built; it is not to you a burden on the shoulder. 'Now, serve Jehovah your God, and His people Israel, (YLT)
2 Chronicles 35:13 And they cook the passover with fire, according to the ordinance, and the sanctified things they have cooked in pots, and in kettles, and in pans -- for all the sons of the people. (YLT)
2 Chronicles 36:14 Also, all the heads of the priests, and the people, having multiplied to commit a trespass according to all the abominations of the nations, and they defile the house of Jehovah that He hath sanctified in Jerusalem. (YLT NAS)
Ezra 3:5 and after this a continual burnt-offering, and for new moons, and for all appointed seasons of Jehovah that are sanctified; and for every one who is willingly offering a willing-offering to Jehovah. (YLT)
Nehemiah 3:1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up its doors; even to the tower of Hammeah they sanctified it, to the tower of Hananel. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Nehemiah 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron. (KJV WBS)
Job 1:5 It was so, when the days of their feasting had run their course, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job said, "It may be that my sons have sinned, and renounced God in their hearts." Job did so continually. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Isaiah 5:16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Isaiah 13:3 I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. (KJV WBS YLT)
Isaiah 29:23 For in his seeing his children, The work of My hand, in his midst, They sanctify My name, And have sanctified the Holy One of Jacob, And the God of Israel they declare fearful. (YLT)
Isaiah 30:29 Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a feast is sanctified; and joy of heart, as of one who goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. (DBY YLT)
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you. I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS)
Jeremiah 17:22 Nor do ye take out a burden from your houses on the day of rest, Yea, any work ye do not do, And ye have sanctified the day of rest, As I have commanded your fathers. (YLT)
Ezekiel 20:41 As a pleasant aroma will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries in which you have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 28:22 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 28:25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 36:23 I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Yahweh, says the Lord Yahweh, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. (WEB KJV JPS ASV WBS YLT)
Ezekiel 38:16 and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes.
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Post by Ramon on May 19, 2009 13:11:20 GMT -5
Why are guys talking about me?  No, I do not believe one is heaven-bond for the sole reason that his or her spouse is "saved". After searching for a Orthodox interpretation of this verse, there is none that stated that this Scriptural text means that. The greek word used here is for sanctification is "hgiastai". This word is a form of the word "agiazw", meaning to "separate from things profane and dedicate to God", "to consecrate". This same used by the Septuagint to refer to external (or levitical) cleansing. The word "sanctify" means more than just being cleanse from sin. This is what the Orthodox Study Bible say about this verse: "In Judaism the family was joined to the covenant through the father. But in the Church. the family is holy if either spouse is a believer (see also 2 Ti 1:5). This does not mean that all are saved, but all are affected by the faith of a Christian spouse. The family is spiritual unit: if one member is a Christian, the whole family is set apart by God's grace" (page 1559). One Believing member of a household brings a sanctifying influence to the household and it is the marriage itself that has been sanctified by the ordinance of God. Unlike in the Old Covenant, the unbelieving spouse is sanctified by the believing spouse (the clean overcomes the unclean). The whole family is set apart for God's grace. It will be better to read 2 Cor 6:14 first. Saint Paul commands Christians to "Be not unequally yoked together with unbelievers." So, a spouse that gets saved after marriage might think he or she is commanded to divorce the unbeliever, since they are now unequally yoked. However, Paul said, "…let him not put her away," (v. 12) and "… let her not leave him," (v.13). So, what does God do to clean up this defiled bed? He sanctifies the unsaved spouse so that the two may remain married. This is very different in the Old Covenant, wherein it was not possible to overcome the uncleanness of an unbelieving spouse. However, Saint Paul wrote the following: "But if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace. For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife? But as God hath distributed to every man, as the Lord hath called every one, so let him walk. And so ordain I in all churches. Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised. Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." (1 Cor 7:15-20).. Saint Paul advices the Corinthian Christians not to divorce for simply because the other spouse is a non-believer. Rather, he or she should stay because his or her holy influence might bring the unbeliever into the Lovely Bosom of Christ and the Church. If Saint Paul believed the unbeliever was saved, he wouldn't have wrote verse 16. Saint Paul’s hope is that by staying married, the unbeliever will get saved by the believing spouse (through her faith and right living in the Orthodox Faith). This is what The Navarre Bible, a highly respected Catholic Commentary say about this verse: "[....]The other members of a family (spouse, children) are sanctified by the partner who has received Baptism (vv. 13-14). That is, the conversion of one of the spouses, far from being to the detriment of the family, is something very good and a benfit to all; Baptism is not in any any a cause of division; rather it reinforces and sanctifies marriage and family. Conversion, therefore, does not make for dissolution but for indissolubility" (The Navarre Bible, The Letters of Saint Paul, page 228). I agree with teresahrc: "sanctified" can also mean "set apart". The unbelieving spouse is not automatically "holy" or "saved", but they do have the special privilege of living with someone who is. They are able to enjoy many of God's blessing sort of via their believing spouse, because God honors their marriage. (the two shall become one) that doesn't mean they will go to heaven if they don't believe, but they have the prayers of the spouse and their example that would hopefully lead them to also believe. Here is what Blessed Theodoret of Cyrus have to say about this verse: "He is not requiring anyone to take an unbeliever as a wife, nor bidding a believer be joined in marriage with an unbelieving husband: he is saying the direct opposite; shortly afterward, note, he added the requirement of widows onlyin the Lord , that is, to a believing, pious man, of modest and discreet life. Here, on the contrary, he spoke of those joined in marriage before Christian teaching. That is to say, take the case where the husband came to faith while the wife persisted in unbeliever, or conversely the wife accepted the teaching while the husband was caught up in the defilement of unbelief. He recommends the healthy put up with ailment of their partners, and be busy about saving them saying, [he quotes the verse], that is, has a hope of being saved. [...] (Theodoret of Cyrus, Commentary on the Letters of Saint Paul, Volume 1, page 185).Saint John Chyrsostom, also commented on this passage saying that the clean overcomes the unclean: "Then lest the woman might fear, as though she became unclean because of intercourse with her husband, he says, "For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband." And yet, if "he that is joined to an harlot is one body," it is quite clear that the woman also who is joined to an idolater is one body. Well: it is one body; nevertheless she becomes not unclean, but the cleanness of the wife overcomes the uncleanness of the husband; and again, the cleanness of the believing husband overcomes the uncleanness of the unbelieving wife.
How then in this case is the uncleanness overcome, and therefore the intercourse allowed; while in the woman who prostitutes herself, the husband is not condemned in casting her out? Because here there is hope that the lost member may be saved through the marriage; but in the other case the marriage has already been dissolved; and there again both are corrupted; but here the fault is in one only of the two. I mean something like this: she that has been guilty of fornication is utterly abominable: if then "he that is joined to an harlot is one body," he also becomes abominable by having connection with an harlot; wherefore all the purity flits away. But in the case before us it is not so. But how? The idolater is unclean but the woman is not unclean. For if indeed she were a partner with him in that wherein he is unclean, I mean his impiety, she herself would also become unclean. But now the idolater is unclean in one way, and the wife holds communion with him in another wherein he is not unclean. For marriage and mixture of bodies is that wherein the communion consists. [.....]
What then, is the Greek holy? Certainly not: for he said not, He is holy; but, "He is sanctified in his wife." And this he said, not to signify that he is holy, but to deliver the woman as completely as possible from her fear and lead the man to desire the truth. For the uncleanness is not in the bodies wherein there is communion, but in the mind and the thoughts." (Homilies on 1 Corinthians, Homily 19). . I could not found one Father, however, who stated that the unbeliever spouse is saved through the believer spouse. Taking the verse in context, knowing the possible definition of the word "sanctify" (especially the Greek word used in this passage), it is clear that it means that the whole family is "set apart" by the virtue of the believing spouse. A believing spouse, by sanctifying his or her unbelieving spouse, is allowed to remain married to the unbelieving spouse in hopes of seeing him or her come to Christ. However, it does not mean that the unbelieving spouse is saved! In the words of Blessed Theophylact, "Away from such thought!"...... In IC.XC, Ramon |
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