[[5]] Acts x. 28.
[[6]] The matter of 'eating with the Gentiles' was prominent, cf. ii. 12.
[[7]] 1 Cor. x. 25.
[[8]] Acts xv. 23.
[[9]] 1 Cor. viii, and x. 23-33.
[[10]] The exact point—abstaining from all flesh meat—is so different from what had presented itself at Corinth that there must be a particular reference to Roman circumstances, of which St. Paul was probably informed by Priscilla and Aquila.
[[11]] This seems to follow from Philo's statement that they did not make animal sacrifices: and from Josephus' description of their way of life as Pythagorean.
[[12]] Cf. 1 Cor. viii. 10.
[[13]] Gal. iv. 10; cf. Col. ii. 16, 17: 'Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day: which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ's.'
[[14]] Or for decisions of doubts, marg. This, or something like this, is the right meaning; cf. Hebr. v. 14: 'for decision between good and evil.' 1 Cor. xii. 10: 'discernings of spirits,' i.e. decisions as to their true character.