1 CORINTHIANS 8:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.”
Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother or sister to fall into sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause them to stumble. — Paul's personal resolution: skandalizō (cause to stumble) his sister or brother through eating? Never. The commitment is permanent: never eat meat again. The radical self-renunciation—living as a vegetarian in perpetuity to prevent another's spiritual fall—models the love that must govern freedom. Knowledge and rights yield entirely to the imperative of building up the community.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 8:13
“Wherefore, if meat make my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh forever.” This is like the best of teachers, to teach in his own person the things which he speaks. Nor did he say whether justly or unjustly; but in any case. “I say not,” (such is his tone,) “meat offered in sacrifice to an idol, which is already prohibited for another reason; but if any even of those things which are within license and are permitted causes stumbling, from these also will I abstain: and not…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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