| Edward Cooper - 1818 - 490 pages
...to mind 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...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." * In the second place, we may observe how absurd, as well as how false is the assertion, which we so... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 606 pages
...privileges of his know ledge, for the edification of his brother. " Wherefore if meat make my bro" ther to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world " standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Upon this occasion it is that he advances the general assertion in the text; which resolves itself... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1818 - 578 pages
...made weak. Rom. xiv. 20,2I. And again. I Cor. viii. I3. Whcrrfore, if meat make my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth ; lest I make my brother to offend. However innocent Gaming for amusement may be, it cannot be more innocent than eating flesh, than doing... | |
| 1829 - 632 pages
...But 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...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend," 1 C> < viii. 7 — 13. Now, so far as there exists an analogy between this case, and that of smoking... | |
| James Everett - 1819 - 198 pages
...table. This, though indifferent in itself, gave offence ; and hear the pious breathings of Paul, " Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.":}: The apostle found it necessary repeatedly to dwell upon this topic. " Give none oflence, neither to... | |
| 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...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." But to return to Emma. Her mind had beyond question, received a bias for evil. It required, however,... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - 1820 - 290 pages
...translated, to make to offend; where Paul says, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no more flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." The little ones to whom our Saviour alludes, in this passage, he elsewhere more fully particularises,... | |
| 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...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. To grieve, offend, judge, or reject our weak brother, or by any means to occasion his stumbling and... | |
| Hugh Worthington - 1822 - 556 pages
...conscience, 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...world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Do you not feel the light thrown upon this chapter by this method of reading it ? It could not have... | |
| 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...while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend/1st Cor. viii. 13. I informed them that I did not often feel it my duty to preach on the subject... | |
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