Johnjthecelt

The 1Corinthians 7 text was and is still a revolutionary text it emphasizes mutualism all through the paragraph. The idea that a mans body belongs to the wife, that her sexual needs are being recognized and her husband has a responsibility to meet them was a unheard of challenge, an amazing new paradigm. Then in verse 5 συμφώνου, symphonoo, that if there is going to be a temporary time for the contemplative it’s not some male arbitrary unilateral decision it’s a symphony, a harmony of two bodies, soma, two souls, psyche, two pneuma, two spirits to decide together. This idea of marriage for two thousand years in the Orthodox Church of the East was compared to the περιχώρησις, perichorisis, the Sacred Dance, the Trinity. An early church heresy in the regarding the Trinity was hierarchicalism. There is no Hierarchy in the Trinity it’s a sacred dance and symphony of balance,and equality and mutualism, this idea was to serve the church and marriage as a model and example, to understand marriage a relationship that is symbiotic two sides of the same coin to separate does damage to both.
Husbands and Wives, dance your dance and celebrate your symphony of life together.??