| 1827 - 524 pages
...when ye 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. Am I not an apostle ? am I not free ? have I not seen Jesus... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1827 - 120 pages
...will explain the means of success, and an energy from God will use them. 75 1 CORINTHIANS, VIII. 13. If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. WE have attended to some statements, relating to the appalling... | |
| Jacques Saurin - 1827 - 522 pages
...&c. It is allowable to eat any thing, without regard to the Levitioal law. Yet St. Paul declares, ' If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standcth,' 1 Cor. viii. 13. How many circumstances of this kind might I add? Let us retain what we... | |
| William Jay - 1828 - 408 pages
...judgments on the neighbourhood in which they live. What a noble spirit dictated the resolution, " Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." And how far did Ezra carry the delicacy of his religious... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...ye 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 Cor. viii. 4. 7—13. For though I be free from all... | |
| Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...indifferent things, than, by the uncharitable use of it, destroy others; 1 Cor.viii. 13. "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest 1 make my brother to offend." In their use of lawful comforts there is a great change.... | |
| 1828 - 852 pages
...degree : so much so, that, rather than be guilty of it, the Apostle solemnly declares, for himself, "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. viii. 13). — Would that all who attempt to «Test... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - 1828 - 588 pages
...sin against the bretlm ", and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. fl I? Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world staiideth, lest t make my brother to ofiend. CHAP. IX. AM 1 not an apostle? am I not free? have I not... | |
| 1828 - 852 pages
...so much so, that, rather than be guilty of it, the Apostle solemnly declares, for him- * self, *• 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. viii. 13). — Would that all who attempt to wrest... | |
| 1829 - 572 pages
...Philadelphia, for the promotion of Temperance. AN "offence," in Scripture language, is a moral stumbling-block. To "make another to offend," is to lay such a stumbling-block...brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make ray brother to offend" — If an indulgence, though apparently innocent in itself,... | |
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