Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on 1 Corinthians 7:30
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1 Corinthians7:30
30. they that weep ... wept not--(Compare 2Co 6:10).
they that buy ... possessed not--(Compare Is 24:1, 2). Christ specifies as the condemning sin of the men of Sodom not merely their open profligacy, but that "they bought, they sold," &c., as men whose all was in this world (Lu 17:28). "Possessed" in the Greek implies a holding fast of a possession; this the Christian will not do, for his "enduring substance" is elsewhere (He 10:34).
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