| Edward Cooper - 1818 - 490 pages
...also, the holy self-denying resolution of the Apostle, in reference to the same subject. " Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." * In the second place, we may observe how absurd, as well... | |
| 1829 - 632 pages
...sin so against the brethren, and wound their •weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend," 1 C> < viii. 7 — 13. Now, so far as there exists an... | |
| 1843 - 628 pages
...do no harm ?" The Bible knows of none. Oh! for the holy circumspection of that good man who said, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." But to return to Emma. Her mind had beyond question, received... | |
| James Everett - 1819 - 198 pages
...This, though indifferent in itself, gave offence ; and hear the pious breathings of Paul, " Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.":}: The apostle found it necessary repeatedly to dwell... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - 1821 - 406 pages
...are weak. When ye sin against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. To grieve, offend, judge, or reject our weak brother, or... | |
| Hugh Worthington - 1822 - 556 pages
...ye sin against Christ." Mark the admirable conclusion of the Apostle in the last verse. " Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Do you not feel the light thrown upon this chapter by... | |
| Charles Brooks - 1822 - 36 pages
...in my belief, I ought to preach and practice as I believed. I quoted the words of the Apostle, that "if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend/1st Cor. viii. 13. I informed them that I did not often... | |
| Jeremy Bentham - 1823 - 448 pages
...neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither " if we eat not, are we the worse. -13. Where" fore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat " no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my " brother to offend." 1 Cor. ix. 19 to 23. 19. " For though I be free " from... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 466 pages
...eat not, were uot the worse, unless they had expressed some opinion of good in eating. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh, while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. PARAPHRASE. • 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother offend,... | |
| John Locke - 1823 - 474 pages
...not the heller; or, if they eal not, were not the worse, uuless they had expressed some 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh, while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. PARAPHRASE. 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother offend,... | |
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