...transcendental religion, not confined to Gnosticism in particular. We remind the reader of St. Paul's saying: But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,...abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. (I Cor. 7:29-3l) is not identical with true being, it is yet a stepping stone to it. But "this...

...cautioned the people about choosing between the things of the world and the kingdom of God when he said, "This I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,...it: for the fashion of this world passeth away" (1 Corinthians 7:29-31). After the servant heard all of the guests' excuses, he returned to his lord and...

...make every effort to be in that condition approved by the Apostle in 1 Corinthians 7: 29, etc.—'that both they that have wives be as though they had none;...and they that use this world, as not abusing it.' I thank my God that there is no affliction, cross or sorrow laid upon me, but that my heavenly Father...

...but I spare you. But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remains, that both they that 11 have wives be as though they had none; and they that weep,...world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away. THE FASHION OF THIS WORLD PASSES AWAY. But I would have you without anxieties. He that...

...with the testimonies of Christ and His disciples? Were they deceived? "Paul writes to the Corinthians: 'But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,...and they that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not' (1 Cor. 7:29, 30), "Again, in his epistle to the Romans, he says: '"The night is far spent, the day...

...the impending arrival of the Kingdom of God, before which all earthly concerns should seem secondary: "But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,...that weep, as though they wept not;... and they that buy, as though they possessed not" (I Cor. 7:29-30, KJV). For Paul, Christian sexuality had little...

...it, and especially how near you are unto eternity. This is the apostle's method, I Cor. vii. 29—31, "But this I say, brethren, the time is short : it...buy, as though they possessed not ; and they that use the world, as not abusing it (or as if they used it not) : for the fashion of this world passeth away."...

...engaged at such a time! In a similar way the apostle Paul also speaks to the Corinthians when he writes: "But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth,...it: for the fashion of this world passeth away" (1 Cor. 7:29—31). This was what, in his measure, Baruch needed to learn. God was about to bring the...