[[25]] Unity in Diversity, by Charles Bigg, D.D. (Longmans, 1899), pp. 84, 85, 95.
[[26]] 'Whatever is not of faith is sin—that is whatever is against conscience.' Aquinas, quoted in S. and H. in loc.
[[27]] Cf. xii. 6: 'Let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith.'
[[28]] Col. ii. 16: 'Let no man judge you in respect of a sabbath day.'
[[29]] This is probably implied in Acts xx. 7.
[[30]] 1 Cor. xvi. 1.
[[31]] Philippians, on 'the Christian Ministry,' p. 181. The language in the immediate context I cannot make my own. But the statement quoted is surely true. And to this day I suppose, for those living in religious communities and similar institutions, there is very little practical difference between Sundays and week-days. This almost complete absence of distinction, however, must always come about, if it is to be legitimate, by raising the week-days to the spiritual level of the Sundays, and not by the opposite process.
[[32]] Especially in the Pastoral Epistles: but also in the epistles to the Thessalonians and Corinthians.
[[33]] 1 Cor. viii. 13.
[[34]] Cf. 1 Cor. x. 30: 'Why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks.' 1 Tim. iv. 3, 4: 'Meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving.... For every creature of God is good ... if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. Cf. Acts xxvii. 35: 'And when he had taken bread, he gave thanks to God in the presence of all: and he brake it, and began to eat.'