The Duty of an inoffensive CONDUCT.
Give none Offence, neither to the Jews,
nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God.
THE Apostle, in the latter part
of this chapter, is giving his T
Opinion upon a point of Controversy which was warmly
debated in his day; viz. "s whether or no it was lawful for Chrif“ tians, on any Occasion, to eat of that “ Meat which had been offered in facrifice « to Idols.
This fome denied; fuppofing that it gave countenance to the pagan Idolatry, was in
confiftent