...abstinence ; and .tlien proposes his own generous resolution to enforce his advice, (a) " Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh whilst the world stands, that I make not my brother to offend." (6) " Whatsoever ye bind on earth shall...

...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 eat no flesh...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...

...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...

...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...

...This, though indifferent in itself, gave offence ; and hear the pious breathings of Paul, " Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh...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...

...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...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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 eat no flesh...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...