Romans 14:21 (WEB)
It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.
Catechism · 1
“Therefore "it is right not to . . . do anything that makes your brother stumble."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 14:21.
Fathers and councils · 11
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.28Book VIII
“…and purer life it says, “It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak;” and again, “Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died;” and again, “If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth,…” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
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Jerome
“But once Christ has come in the end of time, and Omega passed into Alpha and turned the end into the beginning, we are no longer allowed divorce, nor are we circumcised, nor do we eat flesh, for the Apostle says, “It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“Besides, he remembered that he had spoken of “wine wherein is excess,” and had said, “it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“I do not speak of flesh dishes only (although of these the chosen vessel declares his mind thus: “it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine”) but of vegetables as well.” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“But the same apostle says: “it is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine,” and in another place: “be not drunk with wine wherein is excess.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“…subjection; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway;” and “It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine;” and “I humbled my soul with fasting;” and “thou wilt make all” my “bed in” my “sickness;” and “Thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the…” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
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Basil the Great
“The Christian ought not to be enslaved by wine; nor to be eager for flesh meat, and as a general rule ought not to be a lover of pleasure in eating or drinking, “for every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
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Tertullian
“That about which he says, “It is good not to eat flesh, and not to drink wine:” “for he who in these points doeth service, is pleasing and propitiable to our God.”” — editor's note: Ver. 21.
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Gregory the Great
“Let those hear, It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother stumbleth (Rom. xiv. 21).” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
““It is good, then, neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine,” as both he and the Pythagoreans acknowledge.” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
Read the whole comment“Scriptum est enim: “Bonum est carnero non coinedere, nec vinum bibere, si quis comedat per offendiculum.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 21.
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Cross-references · 5
Cited together in Catechism §1789.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.28.
Cited together in Catechism §1789.
Cited together in Catechism §1789.
Cited together in Catechism §1789.