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The 'stronger' believer—he who correctly judges that eating meat offered to idols involves no moral guilt—must nonetheless abstain if his eating becomes a *skandalon* (stumbling-block) or *proskamma* (occasion to fall) in another's path.
The Church is compared to a dove through ten striking parallels.
The apostle Paul, when dissuading from impurity, eschewed mere physical or social arguments.
Throughout this epistle, Paul has wielded the rod of remonstrance, irony, and indignation.
Christ lays His hand upon every form of human love—the family bond, the marriage covenant, and the precious thing of friendship itself.
Yet understand: there is no opposition between Christ and His people requiring conquest.
Who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?' The unworthy members of Zion—the *sinners in Zion*—cry out in terror, supposing the prophet speaks of annihilation.
First, Christ freed this ancient law from false Jewish glosses that had corrupted its meaning (Matthew 23:43-44).
He means it with deliberate, reiterated assurance to that handful of poor, ignorant fishermen who knew Him so dimly.
Where other evangelists might spare us the indignity, John insists on recording Christ's thirst upon the Cross and His weariness at Jacob's well.
The title "Lamb" applied to Christ appears nowhere else in Scripture save John's Gospel—this is no accident.
All intelligent creatures act from some consideration—money, pleasure, regard for others—yet Christ calls us to a higher ordering of life itself.
The juxtaposition reveals the animating principle of New Testament morality itself: devotion to God is the indispensable basis of all practical helpfulness to man, and conversely, practical helpfulness to man is the expression and manifestation of devotion to God.
Christ does not merely teach about divine love—He claims to *be* its Object and its Channel.
First, the brotherhood of souls demands mutual burden-bearing.
Nothing gives the believer such joy as fellowship with Christ.
To the officers sent by the Pharisees—men animated by hatred, restrained only by inexplicable awe—His declaration 'Whither I go, ye cannot come' becomes a triumphant assertion of invulnerability.
The exiles' return to Jerusalem embodies this metaphor.
Song of Songs 2: From the struggle for freedom, it meets us gently—proclaims hope, dignity, and God’s liberating justice.
1 Corinthians 13: From the underside of history, it names oppression as sin and calls the Church to liberating praxis.
Song of Songs 2: In God’s unfolding plan, it clarifies the times and calls us to readiness and hope.
John 14:23-29 encourages the long obedience of prayer, fasting, and mercy—today, not someday.
John 14:23-29 steadies anxious hearts: the God who chose you will also keep you—today, not someday.
1 Corinthians 13: In God’s unfolding plan, it meets us gently—clarifies the times and calls us to readiness and hope.