why am I assailed with reproaches for my thanksgiving? — &ya- pigrojj I give thanks) Thanksgiving sanctifies all meat ; it denies the authority of idols, and asserts the authority of God. — 1 Tim. iv. 3, 4 ; Rom. xiv. 6.
31. E/Ve, whether) A great first principle, comp. Jer. xxii. 15, 16. — iin n noitfri) or whatsoever ye do , which is either more or even less common than eating or drinking. [It is in the highest degree just to consider in all our words and actions , whether they tend to the glory of God, 2 Cor. ix. 12 ; 1 Pet. iv. 11. — V. g.] — s/g So^av 0soD, to the glory of God ) with thanksgiving and the edification of our neighbour.
32. Tfj hxXrjtrict rod &sov, to the church of God) the holy church called from among the Jews and Gentiles. The same name is found ch. xi. 16, 22.
33. Havre c) %ara navra, in all things. — rratiiv, all men) Jews, Greeks, Christians. — ap'etxu, I please) with respect to their con- sciences.— ha <ru6ufi} that they may he saved) By this standard we must determine •what is profitable.
1. M//x7jra/ /aov, imitators [followers’] of me) He adds this verse to the former to show, that we must look to Christ, not to him [the apostle], as our highest example. — Xpurrov , of Christ) who did not please Himself Rom. xv. 3, but gave Himself at all costs for our salvation, Eph. v. 2.
2. ’Eto/i/w, I praise) [ This verse is the proper commencement of the chapter. — Not. Crit.] Nowhere else does Paul so directly praise any of those, to whom he writes. But here he resolves to write about anything, which does not properly fall under his rrapayys'k/av , admonition , to them, ver. 17 ; in which, however, if they will follow the reasons, which he has set before them, and comply with the custom of the saints, ver. 16, which he finally lays down as somewhat stringent, he assures the Corinthians, that they will be worthy of praise , and declares, that they will incur neither Peter's indignation , nor his. — navra) xard rrdvr a. —