Romans 14:20 (WEB)
Don’t overthrow God’s work for food’s sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.
Fathers and councils · 5
Jerome
“…there of argument when Scripture clearly teaches that every moving creature, like herbs and vegetables, were given to us for food, and the Apostle cries aloud ‘All things are clean to the clean, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving,’ andtells us that men will come in the last days,…” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 20; 1 Tim. iv. 5.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Thou hast taught me, good Father, that “unto the pure all things are pure;” but “it is evil for that man who eateth with offence;” “and that every creature of Thine is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with, thanksgiving;” and that “meat commendeth us not to God;” and that…” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 20.
Read the whole comment“…God is good, and nothing to be refused which is received with thanksgiving; but because, as he also says, “It is evil for that man who eateth with offense;” and if so, with offense to man, how much more so if to God, to whom it was no light offense, on the part of the Israelites, to reject what wisdom was…” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 20.
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Tertullian
“But further: when writing to the Romans, the apostle now gives you a home-thrust, detractors as you are of this observance: “Do not for the sake of food,” he says, “undo the work of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 20.
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Clement of Alexandria
“For a voice will whisper to him, saying, “Destroy not the work of God for the sake of food.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 20.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.
Cited together in Tractates on the Gospel of John Tractate 73.