9. about —rather, as oldest manuscripts read, "carried aside "; namely, compare Ephesians 4:14 . divers —differing from the one faith in the one and the same Jesus Christ, as taught by them who had the rule over you ( Ephesians 4:14- : ). strange —foreign to the truth. doctrines —"teachings." established with grace; not with meats —not with observances of Jewish distinctions between clean and unclean meats, to which ascetic Judaizers added in Christian times the rejection of some meats, and the use of others: noticed also by Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:8 ; 1 Corinthians 8:13 ; 1 Corinthians 6:13 ; Romans 14:17 , an exact parallel to this verse: these are some of the "divers and strange doctrines" of the previous sentence. Christ's body offered once for all for us, is our true spiritual "meat" to "eat" ( Romans 14:17- : ), "the stay and the staff of bread" ( Romans 14:17- : ), the mean of all "grace." which have not profited — Greek, "in which they who walked were not profited"; namely, in respect to justification, perfect cleansing of the conscience, and sanctification. Compare on "walked," Acts 21:21 ; namely, with superstitious scrupulosity, as though the worship of God in itself consisted in such legal observances. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-10" class="com-number"
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