Thus the Apostle of Justification, and of the Holy Spirit, is the Apostle of Conscience too. He is as urgent upon the awful sacredness of our sense of right and wrong, as upon the offer and the security, in Christ, of peace with God, and the holy Indwelling, and the hope of glory. Let our steps reverently follow his, as we walk with God, and with men. Let us "rejoice in Christ Jesus," with a "joy" which is "in the Holy Ghost." Let us reverence duty, let us reverence conscience, in our own life, and also in the lives around us.
[231] Τὸν μὴ (not οὐκ) ἐσθίοντα: the μὴ gives "non-eating" as not merely a fact, but a _condition_, about the man.
[232] Read δυνατεῖ ηὰρ ὁ Κύρος.
[233] Probably the negative limb of ver. 6. is only an explanatory gloss, not the words of the Apostle.
[234] Read καὶ.
[235] There seems to be a broad and intelligible difference between the Sabbath-keeping _of the Jewish law_ and the Sabbath-keeping _of man_; the enjoyment and holy use of the primeval Rest for man and beast. We take it that _that_ duty and privilege is not in question here at all. The "weak" Christian was the anxious scholar of the Rabbis, not the man simply loyal to the Decalogue.
[236] Read ἀπέθανε καὶ ἀνέζησε.
[237] We transcribe here a few paragraphs from the closing pages of our book _Life in Christ and for Christ_.
[238] Visitation of the Sick (Prayer for a Sick Child).
[239] So read, not τοῦ Χριστοῦ. It is significant meantime, as a testimony to the Apostle's view of his Master's Nature, that in 2 Cor. v. 10, a perfectly parallel passage, he writes, "we must all appear before the tribunal _of Christ_."
[240] Probably read γὰρ not δὲ.
[241] Read τούτῳ not τούτοις. Possibly the pronoun refers to "the Holy Spirit" (Πνεῦμα) just mentioned.
[242] Lit., "_who eats by means of a stumblingblock_"; the example, with its weight of "public opinion," being _the means of_ overriding his conscience.
[243] Probably read πίστιν ἣν ἔχεις, κατὰ κτλ.