Note 231 — Chapter XXIX
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Τὸν μὴ (not οὐκ) ἐσθίοντα: the μὴ gives "non-eating" as not merely a fact, but a condition, about the man.
[232] Read δυνατεῖ ηὰρ ὁ Κύρος.
[233] Probably the negative limb of ver. 6. is only an explanatory gloss, not the words of the Apostle.
[234] Read καὶ.
[235] There seems to be a broad and intelligible difference between the Sabbath-keeping of the Jewish law and the Sabbath-keeping of man; the enjoyment and holy use of the primeval Rest for man and beast. We take it that that duty and privilege is not in question here at all. The "weak" Christian was the anxious scholar of the Rabbis, not the man simply loyal to the Decalogue.
[236] Read ἀπέθανε καὶ ἀνέζησε.
[237] We transcribe here a few paragraphs from the closing pages of our book Life in Christ and for Christ.
[238] Visitation of the Sick (Prayer for a Sick Child).
[239] So read, not τοῦ Χριστοῦ. It is significant meantime, as a testimony to the Apostle's view of his Master's Nature, that in 2 Cor. v. 10, a perfectly parallel passage, he writes, "we must all appear before the tribunal of Christ."
[240] Probably read γὰρ not δὲ.
[241] Read τούτῳ not τούτοις. Possibly the pronoun refers to "the Holy Spirit" (Πνεῦμα) just mentioned.
[242] Lit., "who eats by means of a stumblingblock"; the example, with its weight of "public opinion," being the means of overriding his conscience.
[243] Probably read πίστιν ἣν ἔχεις, κατὰ κτλ.