It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.
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.
Commenting on Romans 14:1-23
Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God,.... Which is to be understood, not of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the doctrines of the Gospel; for a man that has such faith given him, ought not to keep it in his own breast, but to declare it to others; he ought to make a public visible profession of it, before many...
Verse 21. It is good. It is right; or it is better. This verse is an explanation or enlarged specification of the meaning of the former. To eat flesh. That is, such flesh as the Jewish convert regarded as unclean, . Nor to drink wine. Wine was a common drink among the Jews, and usually esteemed lawful.