why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience? This and the following verse are a little obscure, but the sense appears to be that no man has a right to interfere with the liberty enjoyed by another, save so far as his ownconduct and conscientious convictions are likely to be affected thereby. In fact the Apostle's words in 1 Corinthians 10:28-30 may be thus paraphrased. "For conscience sake. Not that youare to feel conscience-stricken, as though you had yourself been doing something wrong, and given your neighbours a right to blame you. No man has any such right You were doing no harm. You had a perfect right to eat what was set before you with gratitude to God for what He had given. No, it is not of your own, but of your neighbour's conscience, that I was speaking. To him you would be doing harm incalculable, if you allowed him to suppose that there was no sin in worshipping idols."

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