Romans 14:3 (WEB)
Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.
Fathers and councils · 8
Jerome
“And if he says to the Romans:“Let not him that eateth set at nought him that eateth not: and let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth,” he does not make fasting and fulness of…” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 3.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XI–XVII XVII.20Conference XVII
“Who is offended, and I burn not?” and in this way he fulfilled what he had commanded the Corinthians to do when he said: “Be ye without offence to Jews and Greeks and the Church of Christ, as I also please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit but that of the many, that they may be saved.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 3; 1 Cor. viii. 38; 2 Cor. xi. 29; 1 Cor. x. 32, 33.
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Gregory the Great
“As to your alleging to me the testimony of the apostle Paul, where he says, Let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth (Rom. xiv. 3), I think that this was altogether out of place, seeing both that I am not one that eateth not, and also that Paul did not here mean to say that…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Again, were it not that the sin of pride sometimes pierces through the cogitations of the abstinent, Paul would by no means have said, Let not him that eateth not judge him that eateth (Rom. xiv. 3).” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“There also he says: “Who art thou that judges another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 3, 4.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“He gives laws for slaves and masters, rulers and ruled, husbands and wives, parents and children, marriage and celibacy, self-discipline and indulgence, wisdom and ignorance, circumcision and uncircumcision, Christ and the world, the flesh and the spirit.” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 3, 6.
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Clement of Alexandria
““Let him who eateth, not despise him who eateth not; and let him who eateth not, not judge him who eateth.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 3.
Read the whole comment“Qui autem comedit, eum qui non comedit non judicet: Deus enim ipsum accepit.”” — editor's note: Rom. xiv. 3.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together with
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII II.29.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII II.29.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII II.29.
Cited together in Epistles, Books I–VIII II.29.
Quotes
Romans 14:3 takes up the words of 1 Kings 20:11 (10 words in common).
Romans 14:3 takes up the words of Sirach 8:19 (8 words in common).
Romans 14:3 takes up the words of Sirach 12:12 (8 words in common).
