td rheir raindand deftruttic. them. Now not to meddle with that Queſtion, whether in ons *Gil6z3. 2 And * if any man think that he knoweth any Ms. —_ ence Bpeny —_ NON Gn Ing : a pv : r Ive OT INC1 IhIp, < any Mediator by { Tira. 6,thing, he knoweth nothing yer as he ought to Chiiſt, yer the things are wlawfu! upon the ſame —G that te ” know e. : ; Apoſtle here determines it unlawful for ſtronger Chriſtians to e Let irbe in this or any other matter, if any man be proud of | 6.9 16.1 offered to Idols, though they knew 'and profeſſed, tht his knowledge and be conceited thar he knoweth enough,and need- an Idol was nothing; for all people that come 1o to worſhip hav eth none to infliutt him, he may indeed have a notion of thing:,| no char knowledge. There are, without doubr mutticudesof im. bur it willdo him 20 good. A Man ought to uſehis knowledge for ple people amongſt the Papifts, that plainly in this kind of Vent. the g'ory of God, and the edification of others. Let a man have | atjoq and Adoration venerate and adore the Crcarure, and ſo never ſo Jarge a notion of things, if he be not humble, if he ulcth | (he; confeiences are defiled by Idolatry , becauſe they hue not his knowledge to the honour of God, and the advantage of o- |, g,ch knowledge as others have, ſuppoſing chat what thoſe chers, he knoweth nothing as he ought to know it. Knowledge | orhers did, were lawful as to their praCtice, -which indeed it is 15 a Talent notto be laid up in a Napkin. not; : 423 0g if any man love God, the fame is known of 3 But meat commendeth us not to God : for neither f It is of much more a\lvantage to a Soul to be known of God, if we eat, (| are we the better ; neither if we cat nd that is, owned, acknowledged and approved, than to comprehend [| are we the worle 9. | much of the things of God in its norion. A man may know much| 4 The Apoſtle here ſpeakerh .in the perſon either of rhoſ of God, and yer be one to whom God will one Day ſay, Depart | Teachers amongſt them, or thoſe more private perſons amorgl from me, I know you not, you workers of Iniquity : bur if any |them, who made no difficulty of exting mear cffered ro dels; monlove Ged, that man is beloved of God, and ſhall be owned and | they obje&ed, that meat, or the eating of meat, wv as not the chin acknowledged by him. In this ſenſe know 1s taken in a mulcitude | which commended any man to God, they were not the betterif of Scriptures, Joh. 17. 3- our Tranſlators render this word aJow, they dideat, or the worſe if they did not ear. The Apoſtle him- Rom. 7,15. | {elf had aflerted this, Rom. 14.17, That the kingdom of God wi
4. As concerning therefore the eating of thoſe things not meat or arink, but righteosſneſs, and peace, and joy in the By
that are offered in ſacrifice to idols g, we know that an | ®YF- | | * Ia, 41. idol is * nothing in che World 4, and that there 3s none] 9 But * take heed, leſt by any means this || liberty 24. other God but one z. [of yours become * a ſtumbling"block to them chat art Cli.io.19. » Meat which is part of me. cor wage gym w_ _ offered | weak 7. | to an Ido], whether it be to betaten in the Ido! Temple, or in af The word :Zuwa is here well tranſla iberty, though it all private houſe. & We know that an Image or an Idol, the repre. | qonifieth Right, DT IR Ley, ” Fife ; ſenrarion ofſame other thing, chough in reſpe&t of cho warcer ic be ſuppoſed, than a real liberty or right; for we ſhall ſee in the next ſomething, either wood, ſtone, or earth, and in reſpett of form _ | verſe, that the Apoſtle is here ſpeaking of their eating in the Ido be ſomething, yet it is nothing formally, or repreſentatively. Ir is} Tangle, WA Os. 16. as. te deverminerk to þe an. heriegil ſer up torepreſent to us a Deity, there is nothing of a Divine Ne en abs Pare apphe "Re Funs R_— cure, or the repreſentation of a Divine Nature in 1t. Ir is nothing poſtle therefore Goneth bans only to ſuppoſe (as they pretond- of what the poor bling Heathen take it to be, and therefore In the ed) that in their eatin g ſimply io the Idols Temple they 1id not Hebrew it harh its name from a word 7 that ignifieth no. | 5, becauſe by eating, men Oh made the worle: yet as welhal thing Jib T3. 14. Zach. 11. 17. Or it 1s nothing that can either ſee afterwards, he declareth their a&ion was not free from guilt] ſanfifie, or polture any meat that is ſer before it. / And we know asit was a violation of that brotherly love which they were oÞlif thar there is none other God but one : the Apoſtle may be concei. ro ſhew to-cheir nalobbou y ved to have ſpoken theſe words as from himſelf, granting what bis S wo | thoſeſaid, who took themſelves to be mn of knowledge. Or elſe in 10 For if any man ſee thee, which haſt knowledg?, the language of thoſe who thus ſpake, repeating their words. {ir at meat in the Idols temple, ſhall not the conlciene®
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© meat in the Idols Temple, will nothe by it be incouraged todo the fame, though pofſibly he judgeth it 1s not lawful ? The word eranflated :mboldened, 1s the ſame which 1s elſewhere often in the New Teſtament tranſlated edified ; it Metaphorically ſignifies ro make a progreſs or proficiency either in good or evil, (though this te che only Text in the New Teſtament where it is taken inan {ſenſe ) This the Apoſtle derermines ſinful ; which lers us know the obligation chat lieth upon every good Chriſtian not to \ſe kis liberty to the prejudice of others Souls, by doing any a&i- ons which we may do or Jet alone, which done by us, may pro- bably become 2 ſaare to them.
[x And * through thy knowledge 7 ſhall the weak brother periſh « for whomChriſt died 2».
+ Through thy knowledge in this place is by occaſion of thy knowleage.
ſervation, + God hath not given people knowledge that they thereby ſhould