Romans 14:3

It is unmistakable, from all the passages in question, on which side apostolic truth lay. St Paul clearly decides against the principleof the "weak brethren;" though he treats it as an error which might lawfully and usefully be met by toleration and the quiet influence of tolerant example.

God hath received him Lit. God did receive him; i.e. at the crisis of his conversion; on the sole revealed condition of his accepting and confessing Christ as his Saviour and Lord. Same verb as that in Romans 14:1.

This clause may probably refer to boththe two preceding clauses; but its main reference (see next verse) is to the fact that the "strong" Christian, in spite of his apparent laxity, had been welcomed by God.