One man esteemeth, &c. Lit. One man judgeth day abeve day, but another Judgeth every day. The "judgeth" in the second clause is an echo from the first, without which it would be obscure. As it stands, it means not only, as E. V., "esteemeth every day alike," but "every day goodalike;" with a suggestion that the "strong" believer will be careful to assert his freedom in the spirit of one who wishes not to secularizebut to consecratehis whole time.

On the question of the Sabbath, see last note on Romans 14:1.

fully persuaded "Quite sure." Cp. Romans 4:21. This word directs individual Christians not to stubborn fixity in their own opinion as such, but to earnest pains, as in the Lord's presence and by His revealed will, to form that opinion clearly. Each man not only has a rightto "his own" opinion, but (a very different matter) is responsiblefor it to the Lord.

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