The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-02-12


weak be omboldoued to eat those things |
which are offered TO idols.
Il. And through thy knowledge shah the /
weak brother perish. for " hum Christ ecu? |
L. But when ye sin 80 against the broth
ren. and wound their weak conscience, ye |
sin aginst Christ
Is Wherefore. If meat make my brother |
TO offend, | Will eat no flesh while the word |
standeth, lest make my brother to Of
feuG
GOLDEN TENT. - Lrt us therefore
follow after the things which make
for peace.-Rom. II;l3.
OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION.
Know edge and love.....,.......l Cor. >:l-3.
The liberty of know.eGge.....l Cor S4-t,
The selt-den!al OF love...........l Cor S.'-lS
Thanksgiving of a. d. 81.
PLACE.-Ephesus
NOTES AND COMMENTS,
Recall from the stury Of II week ago
what sort of city Corinth was, and
think of the many questions of prarti-
cal every day conGuct that would he
apt to trouble handful of Christians
living in the midst of such great pa
ban city. As matter of fact this letter
of Paul to the Christians in Corlnth
was Il reply to a letter from them III
which they had told him of their Ill
cultcs and asked his counsel. One of
the questions they askedhim was what
to do about eating meat that had been
offered before idols. The markets
were full of il, for the priests could
eat only a part, and sold the rest. Some
held that it was wrong to eat ii, for
I, ,nl i'm, rt IN
heather worship, and others held that
il made no difference one way or the
other. Those who did not eat looked
down upon those who ate for induIS-
ing i'll what they considered qucsti"na-
Bile practices. Those who ate, bcliev-
ing that it was not Il question of right
and wrong at all, looked down on their
| brethren for being so superstitious as
to think that the foolishness of offer
ing a piece of meat before the statue
of an imaginary divinity made it wrong
| to eat the beef. acknowledges: The
letter to Paul had probably boasted
"knowledge," md. the broader of the
two views il w. *. Diehl and ,
! checks that boasting III. ....lo!.
knowledge is not to decide, but love.
After the question: Nhat 'heorS rs
to TINS meat IS most rcaSohaDle' Is
TINS other, what course ol action
would be most klhu an" h'IpIuI'
Heart, not brain, must decide.
Paul clearly takes the side of the
more liberal and bruad-mndcd Corin-
thians, and holds that the thing in it.
self is not wrong. Idols are nothing
and the previous experience of the
meat we eat has as little to do with
the religion Of Jesus Christ as the price
we pay a pound for il. Paul would
have his converts he liberal and on.
liyhtencG: he would Nave them plor,
i'm the liberty they have in III, GosnrI
"Unwhcit." pnuI docs unt .t,,
,b.r. .Tb.r. i, ma. =, an ,,,..,, 49,,
Lpovledu.." THAT r.a,h, rIonrrc.,
.nd breadth of view which p,rI nm,
nor, of ,,, rorin,I,f,r.. L.,,a,,nin.,I
some of those who bod hoe, idnI,tnr,
were unable to shake off the rr,Iino
: ,bot in usipr moot ,b,t L,d L.,n =,
nort nf an idoI,trnus c,r.r,ri,I IN.
| as they had done bcforc cnrver,ion
thev ,y,re counromi,iur ,,i,h iI,.l,.
trv They foo. knew tb,t idol, roro
notbinp but felt that This y,, y,rorg
Conscience protested and I'm disrry,r rd
conscience is sin "ToL. bead." nrnod.
| minded freedom is GOOD but !, ,nms,
! not make one forget to he kind il dnos
mot iustifv .aIfshness yr ,ta,., 49,,
he shows in the next chapter. PAM WAS
most liberal in nrocticc mn,t onn,
,ervotive for tho soko of o,bor. In
settling all questions of rioht ond
wropr conduct nov. nc than ,ho.D =.
,he grentest need of charity Iowa nm
self shness. The Christian INNS, nnt
simplv ask "IJoy doc, ,b. u,,,orIa,l.
TO me? Would if do me ony horn, o'.
hut he must ask "Wbot wonId Ina hast
for all concernedq" We mov foo, ,Lat
il is hest to oive mn somo ,hirn, g.,
The sake Of othersIpoi tbot wo aro
governed bv thcir cop.ciornos ,,. .,'>
are not-but SIMPLY that the giving up