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the horror of the weak man is expressed, who eats notwith- standing.
11. ’a ‘xoXs/raij shall perish) He will lose his faith, and, if he do not recover it, his salvation, Rom. xiv. 23. \_See, what im- portant results a single action may produce , although externally considered it seemed to he of little consequence, — V. g.] — hi 6V, for [on account of] whom) For rather than instead of suits the passage before us ; that we may be taught, what we ought to do for the sake of our brethren. — aFsOanv, died) prompted by the love, which thou so very little imitatest.
12. Tuflr rovreg, striking) [Engl. V. not so well, wounding ], as the weary cattle are urged on by the lash. Striking is elegantly used, not wounding , for a wound is seen, a stroke is not so dis- cernible. You strike brethren, or make them strike them- selves.— s/c Xpiffrov, against Christ) to whom the brethren are united. The expression, against Christ , in the latter clause bears the chief emphasis ; when ye sin , in the former.
13. Kpsa, flesh) In order to avoid with the greater certainty flesh sacrificed to an idol, I would abstain from all kinds of flesh. — ffxavhci'kiGUj I should make to offend) The person is changed : he just now said, if meat offend.
1. Ovx, sifjji sXshhpog ; oux sipt d'Troaro’kog ;) am I not free f am I not an apostle f) There is a transposition of these two clauses in the present received reading i1 but Paul first lays down the proposition, I am free ; then, the reason of it [by aetiology. Append.], I am an apostle ; and there is a hendiadys in this sense, I am entitled not only to Christian , hut also to apostolic liberty. We have a chiasmus2 in the discussion of the subject : for in it he first claims for himself the apostleship , ver. 1-3, then he asserts his liberty , and that too as an apostle, ver. 4, 5, 19,
1 AB Vulg. Memph. Syr. Orig. 4,266 b , support the order as in Bengel D G fg later Syr. put «7roVroXoj before etevfepos, as in Rec. Reading. — Ed.
2 See Appendix.
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