Hence Rev., correctly, hath faith to eat. From lacainw to dig . See on Mark iv. The verb means literally to throw out as nothing. Rev., better, set at nought.
Judgment is assigned to the weak brother , contempt to the stronger.
Censoriousness is the peculiar error of the ascetic, contemptuousness of the liberal. Both extremes are allied to spiritual pride . The aorist points to a definite time - when he believed on Christ , though there is still a reference to his present relation to God as determined by the fact of his reception then, which may warrant the rendering by the perfect . Thou, first in the Greek order and peculiarly emphatic. Addressing the weak brother , since judgest corresponds with judge in ver.