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When Paul says, 'I speak, not the Lord' (1 Cor. 7:12), he does not deny the inspiration of the Lord (which he claims, 1 Cor. 7:40), but only that this precept or this law was expressly mentioned by the Lord before himself. Thus the meaning is, this controversy concerning willful desertion was not agitated in the time of Christ and there was no occasion for deciding it. Paul (now illuminated by the Spirit) does.
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