1 CORINTHIANS 10:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?”
I am referring to the other person's conscience, not yours. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience? — Paul clarifies: the concern for conscience is for the weak person, not the strong. The strong's freedom is not to be judged by the weak's scruple. Yet paradoxically, the strong voluntarily constrains freedom out of love. The question 'why is my freedom judged?' presumes the strong would naturally exercise their right.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:29
“But if any man say unto you, This has been offered in sacrifice unto idols; eat not, for his sake that showed it.” Thus it is not at all for any power that they have but as accursed, that he bids abstain from them. Neither then, as though they could injure you, fly from them, (for they have no strength;) nor yet, because they have no strength, indifferently partake: for it is the table of beings hostile and degraded. Wherefore he said, “eat not for his sake that showed it,…
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