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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
For they had written to him, "Whether it was right to abstain from one's wife, or not:" and writing back in answer to this and giving rules about marriage, he introduces also the discourse concerning virginity: "It is good for a man not to touch a woman." "For if," says he, "thou enquire what is the excellent and greatly superior course, it is better not to have any connection whatever with a woman: but if you ask what is safe and helpful to thine own infirmity, be connected by marriage." But since it was likely, as also happens now, …
Theophylact of Ohrid
Good, excellent, he says, if every person, and not only a priest (as some wrongly understand this), were not to touch a wife at all and remained a virgin. But it is safer and closer to our weakness to enter into marriage. Therefore he adds the following.
Theodoret of Cyrus
The Corinthians were asking Paul whether it was right for lawfully married Christians, once they were baptized, to enjoy sexual relations with each other. Paul answered by praising chastity, condemning fornication and allowing conjugal relations.
Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians 200
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
After rebuking the fornicator and those who upheld him, the Apostle now begins to treat of marriage. In regard to this he does three things: first, he discusses those joined in matrimony; secondly, virgins (v. 25); thirdly, widows (v. 39). In regard to the first he does two things: first, he instructs those not joined in matrimony whether to contract matrimony; secondly, he clarifies what he had said (v. 6). …
Bonaventure
That widowed continence according to the evangelical law ought to be vowed is shown by authority, as follows. 1 Corinthians 7: It is good for a man not to touch a woman: therefore by equal reasoning it is good for a woman not to touch a man: but this is not a good of precept, but of counsel; and counsels are to be vowed: therefore not to touch a woman is to be vowed. But this is a vow of continence.
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