2For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth any thing to be unclean, to him it is unclean.
Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. …
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-23)We have in this chapter, I. An account of the unhappy contention which had broken out in the Christian church. Our Master had foretold that offences would come; and, it seems, so they did, for want of that wisdom and love which would have prevented discord, and kept up union among them. 1. There was a difference among them about the distinction of meats and days; these are the two things specified…
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