{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-84","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":27,"verse_to":27},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: Wherefore daintiness is to be shunned, and we are to partake of few and necessary things. \"And if one of the unbelievers call us to a feast, and we determine to go\" (for it is a good thing not to mix with the dissolute), the apostle bids us \"eat what is set before us, asking no questions for conscience sake.\" Similarly he has enjoined to purchase \"what is sold in the shambles,\" without curious questioning. We are not, then, to abstain wholly from various kinds of food, but only are not to be taken up about them. We are to partake of what is set before us, as becomes a Christian, out of respect to him who has invited us, by a harmless and moderate participation in the social meeting; regarding the sumptuousness of what is put on the table as a matter of indifference, despising the dainties, as after a little destined to perish.<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"If one of them that believe not biddeth you,\" saith he, \"to a feast, and you are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.\"</p><p>See again his moderation. For he did not command and make a law that they should withdraw themselves, yet neither did he forbid it. And again, should they depart, he frees them from all suspicion. Now what may be the account of this? That so great curiousness might not seem to arise from any fear and cowardice. For he who makes scrupulous enquiry doth so as being in dread: but he who, on hearing the fact, abstains, abstains as out of contempt and hatred and aversion. Wherefore Paul, purposing to establish both points, saith, \"Whatsoever is set before you, eat.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 25</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"8342c43d8a49f4f4d821aba63fe3058c0cbc1a0929191fd371f2922b0d897f5b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":84,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b3daafd954626f4f27b17c3e9e03161c4c1c47a24f75a7eab6ffddd28d398e7f","translator":null,"work":null}