Lord’s Day 41, Chapter 1: The Covenant of Marriage (2)

This is evidently the meaning in I Corinthians 7:2: "To avoid fornication let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband." The Hebrew word that is translated by "fornication" or "to fornicate" seems to denote chiefly "to play the whore or the harlot," and it refers therefore usually to a female, whether married (in which case it is the same as adultery) or unmarried. This is evidently the meaning in I Corinthians 7:2: "To avoid fornication let every man have his own...