ACC ~ Romans 14 v14

THE FAITHFUL ENJOY THE BLESSING OF FOOD OFFERED IN THEIR ORIGINAL CREATION. NOVATIAN: It is evident that all these foods enjoy again the blessings they received at their creation, now that the law has ended. We must not return to the legal prohibition of foods commanded for certain reasons and which evangelical liberty, setting us free from its bondage, has now discontinued. JEWISH FOODS 5.6.

WITH FAITH NOTHING IS UNCLEAN. DIODORE: This means that nothing is common or unclean when eaten with faith in Christ. PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH.

CHRYSOSTOM: Nothing is unclean by nature, but it becomes so by the spirit in which a person uses it. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 25.

THE TENDER CONSCIENCE. PELAGIUS: Paul is not saying here that there is anything which is unclean but that for someone with a tender conscience things do become unclean, for even after coming to faith in Christ he is still judging according to Jewish custom. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

WHAT DEFILES. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: Christ had said: “Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man but what comes out of the mouth—this defiles a man.” This applies to food as well. EXPLANATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

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