George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Romans 14:17
The kingdom of God is not meat, &c. It does not consist of eating, nor in abstaining, both which may be done without sin, but in justice, peace, &c. (Witham)
The kingdom of God is not meat, &c. It does not consist of eating, nor in abstaining, both which may be done without sin, but in justice, peace, &c. (Witham)
Verse 17. _FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD_] That holy religion which God has sent from heaven, and which be intends to make the instrument of establishing a counterpart of the kingdom of glory among men: Matt...
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD - For an explanation of this phrase, see the note at Matthew 3:2. Here it means that the uniquenesses of the kingdom of God, or of the Church of Christ on earth, do not consist...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. Strong and Weak Brethren are the Lord's Servants. (Romans 14:1 .)_ 2. The True Way of Love. (Romans 14:13 .) Romans 14:1 The question concerning brethren who were weak in faith, how...
CONSIDERATENESS INSTEAD OF CENSORIOUSNESS. Romans 14:13. Let us stop judging one another (_cf._ Matthew 7:1); but come rather to this judgment, not to lay a stumbling-block in a brother's way, etc. R...
RESPECT FOR SCRUPLES (Romans 14:1) _ 14:1 Welcome the man who is weak in the faith, but not with a view to passing judgment on his scruples._ In this chapter Paul is dealing with what may have been...
Do not allow that good gift of freedom which you possess to become a thing which gets you into disrepute. For the Kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but of righteousness and peace and...
KINGDOM OF GOD. App-114. MEAT, DRINK. eating, drinking. RIGHTEOUSNESS. See Romans 1:17. JOY. Compare Galatians 1:5; Galatians 1:22. HOLY GHOST. App-101.:14....
_the kingdom of God_ This important phrase occurs elsewhere in St Paul, 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1Co 6:9-10; 1 Corinthians 15:50; Galatians 5:21;...
ΟΥ̓ ΓΆΡ Κ.Τ.Λ. No question of fundamental principle is raised; you may suspend your freedom in such matters: for the fundamental matters are etc. ΟΥ̓ ΓΆΡ ἘΣΤΙΝ Ἡ. Β. Τ. Θ. Cf. Matthew 6:31-33, _ib_[28...
F. 12–15:13. THE POWER OF THE GOSPEL SEEN IN ITS EFFECT UPON BOTH THE COMMON AND THE INDIVIDUAL LIFE OF CHRISTIANS. In this section S. Paul deals with the consequences of the principles he has worked...
While Christian freedom is to be maintained, it must not be so maintained as to violate charity. S. Paul has developed in the strongest terms the Christian right, and consequently the wrong of judging...
ΒΡΏΣΙΣ (G1035) еда. ΠΌΣΙΣ (G4213) питье....
DISCOURSE: 1917 PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY ILLUSTRATED Romans 14:17. _The kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things servet...
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT, &C.— "The kingdom of God neither prohibits nor enjoins such things as these, nor is it taken up with such little matters; but the great design of it is to regulate...
_TEXT_ Romans 14:13-23. Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge ye this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock in his brother's way, or an occasion of falling. Romans 14:14 I know...
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD - or, as we should say, Religion; i:e., the proper business and blesse...
__ The Conduct of the Saints 1 Fellowship among God's saints should not be based on knowledge or ignorance. God receives us even when we are feeble in faith. We should not cut from our fellowship on...
KINGDOM OF GOD] i.e. the Messianic kingdom, expected by the Jews as an earthly kingdom, but really the reign of Christ over man, whether in grace or glory: cp. 1 Corinthians 4:20. RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e....
THE DUTY OF SYMPATHY AND TOLERATION In chapter Romans 13:12 St. Paul urged his readers, by their expectation of Christ's coming, to avoid the licence and immorality of the heathen. Now he turns to th...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 CHRISTIAN FREEDOM 14:1-12 V1 Accept people whose *faith is weak. But do not argue with them about their opinions. V...
MEAT AND DRINK. — Strictly, _eating and drinking._ RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND PEACE, AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. — By “righteousness and peace” is not here meant imputed righteousness, or justification and rec...
CHAPTER 29 CHRISTIAN DUTY: MUTUAL TENDERNESS AND TOLERANCE: THE SACREDNESS OF EXAMPLE Romans 14:1 BUT him who is weak-we might almost render, him who suffers from weakness, in his faith (in the sens...
The Apostle now proceeds to argue the question of Christian conduct in things indifferent from another point of view that of the influence which our conduct may have on others, and of the consideratio...
Insistence and strife on such matters are inconsistent with Christianity: οὐ γάρ ἐστιν κ. τ. λ. Usually in Paul ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ is transcendent; the kingdom is that which comes with the second adv...
YIELDING RIGHTS FOR OTHERS' SAKE Romans 14:13 We must be careful of one another's faith. Unkind criticism or ridicule, or the strong pressure of our arguments and reasons may impede the divine life i...
The apostle now turned to discussion of some of the difficulties which may arise in the Christian Church. Dealing with the question of the animals sacrificed to idols he laid down a supreme principle...
(17) For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (17) A general reason, and the foundation of the entire argument: the kingdom of heaven con...
“ _For the kingdom of God is not food or drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit._ ” Nothing could be simpler than the connection of this verse with the preceding. The force from...
After having addressed the strong and the weak simultaneously, the apostle further addresses a warning to the former, to induce them not to use their liberty except in conformity with the law of love....
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. (18) For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. (19) L...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
17._For the kingdom of God, etc. _He now, on the other hand, teaches us, that we can without loss abstain from the use of our liberty, because the kingdom of God does not consist in such things. Those...
From the beginning of Chapter 14 to the end of Verse 7 in Chapter 15 another point is taken up, to which the different positions of the Jew and Gentile gave rise. It was difficult for a Jew to rid him...
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK,.... Neither the kingdom of glory, nor the ultimate glory and happiness of the saints in the other world, is attained to by any such things; for neither ea...
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Ver. 17. _For the kingdom of God, &c._] That was a swinish saying of Epicurus, that eternal life...
_For the kingdom of God_ Into which we enter by believing in Christ, and becoming his subjects, or which thereby enters into us, and is set up in our hearts, namely, true religion; _is not_ Does not c...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD; his reign in the soul, and true obedience to him, do not consist in the observance or non-observance of distinctions between meats and drinks, and other like outward things; whence...
Of the abuse of Christian liberty:...
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT MEAT AND DRINK, BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST....
PERSONAL CONSCIENCE TOWARD GOD In Romans 12:1 we have seen instruction in many details of moral conduct. In such cases conscience has no liberty to take any stand but that of truth and honor. Just so...
Liberty and its proper use 13 Do not place a stumbling block or death trap for a brother This is not trivial matter Fall = from grace, lost eternally, damnation 14 See note on verse 5 Weak - does...
FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT EATING AND DRINKING, BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY SPIRIT. The matters under discussion here are not ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. This is...
14-18 Christ deals gently with those who have true grace, though they are weak in it. Consider the design of Christ's death: also that drawing a soul to sin, threatens the destruction of that soul. D...
This verse contains a new argument to persuade Christians not to strive about meats, or such like things; and that is, that the _kingdom of God_ doth not consist in these, but in weightier matters. By...
for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit....
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III Quomodo ergo esuriunt, et sitiunt, et camis patiuntur affectiones, et alia, quae non patietur, qui per Christum accepit perfectam, quae speratur, resurrectione...
Romans 14:17 for G1063 kingdom G932 God G2316 is G2076 (G5748) not G3756 eating G1035 and G2532 drinking...
‘For the Kingly Rule of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.' However, in the ancient world eating and drinking were seen as very much a part of wors...
CHRISTIAN FREEDOM TO BE TEMPERED BY CONSIDERATION FOR THEIR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITH REGARD TO FOOD FETISHES AND SABBATH OBSERVANCE (14:1-23). Paul now deals with the question of whether to observe a...
2. _Proper Use of Christian Liberty on the Part of the Stronger Brethren._ The section opens with a caution against judging (Romans 14:13 a), which furnishes a transition to the leading thought, namel...
II. SPECIAL DISCUSSION RESPECTING THE SCRUPLES OF CERTAIN WEAK BRETHREN. This part of the Epistle was occasioned by the existence at Rome of a class of Christians who had scruples in regard to eating...
Romans 14:17. FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. This kingdom is ‘God's dominion over the heart, instituted and administered by Christ; it is the heavenly sphere of life, in which God's word and Spirit govern, a...
THE KINGDOM OF GOD (η βασιλεια του θεου). Not the future kingdom of eschatology, but the present spiritual kingdom, the reign of God in the heart, of which Jesus spoke so often. See 1 Corinthians 4...
KINGDOM See (Galatians 4:9); (Colossians 2:20). (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 6:33). _ RIGHTEOUSNESS ( See Scofield) - ...
Romans 14:17 In this verse of Scripture joy is not the first but the last of three. Joy is the home in which the pilgrim rests; righteousness and peace are the paths by which he reaches it. I. Righte...
CONTENTS: Law of love concerning doubtful things. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: To do what conscience allows is not always right and to do what it questions is always wrong....
Romans 14:1. _Him that is weak in the faith receive ye._ The apostolic churches were composed of jews and gentiles. Most of the jews were zealous of the law, and observed the legal distinctions of mea...
FOR GOD'S KINGDOM. Eating and drinking are trivial matters, when compared with the great themes of righteousness, peace, and joy! THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES. Compare Galatians 5:22-23; John 7:38-39....
_For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink._ GOD’S KINGDOM I. The description given of the kingdom of God. 1. The import of the term. Christ’s spiritual kingdom established on earth--His dominion...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 14:15 For the sake of the weak, the strong should refrain from eating certain foods. They must be careful not to DESTROY the faith of a brother or sister. Lack of love for the we...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 14:16. LET NOT YOUR GOOD BE EVIL SPOKEN OF.—Let not Christian liberty be abused by offence given to the weak. Romans 14:17. THE KINGDOM OF GOD.—What commends us to God is not...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 14:1 F. _The duty of enlightened Christians towards weak brethren. _From moral duties in general of Christians towards each other and towards all the apostle now passes to such as t...
In the fourteenth chapter Paul deals now with another issue. Him that is weak in the faith receive, but not to doubtful disputations (Romans 14:1). Don't get into arguments with them, doubtful dispu...
1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 4:20; 1 Corinthians 6:9; 1 Corinthians 8:8;...
The kingdom of God. See on Luke 6:20, and compare Matthew 3:2. "The heavenly sphere of life in which God's word and Spirit govern, and whose organ on earth is the Church" (Lange). Not the future, mess...
For the kingdom of God — That is, true religion, does not consist in external observances. But in righteousness — The image of God stamped on the heart; the love of God and man, accompanied with the p...
That is, "The spiritual kingdom of God and Christ in the world consisteth not in these little things of meat and drink, but IN RIGHTEOUSNESS towards God and our neighbour; IN PEACE, that is, in peacea...