...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 men, yet have I made myself a servantunto all,...

...weak conscience, ye sin against Christ 13 Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will cat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. CHAP. IX. J\!in inters ought to live by the gospel. AM I not an apostle ? am I not free? have I not...

...my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." 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 noble does he here look! And how below his principles does a Christian act, when he thinks...

...reply the whole doctrine of Christian liberty : but from his saying, 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.) it is plain that such abstinence was a very different thing from that alluded to...

...make my brother to offend," (not if meat offend my brother, but if it make, or cause him to offend,) " I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Here is a solemn and dignified rebuke, enforced by a noble, a disinterested, a truly Christian resolution....

...wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if 13 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 9 By himself as an T ^., . -, T ni •...

...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,...

...line of conduct, as will lead him into sin. Our apostle affirms, " if meat make my 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, be the occasion...

...all occasion of offence from a weak brother ; " If meat," says St. Paul, " make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend 1." We should not be backward in adopting measures of peace and unity in the Christian Church, though...

...the fact, may mourn over it, and consider it as deserving of severe censure ; yet the idea offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." I say, is this the alleged warrant for making the pledge in question a term of communion 1 ? If it...