Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

Romans 14:3

Despise [ε ξ ο υ θ ε ν ε ι τ ω]. The verb means literally to throw out as nothing. Rev., better, set at nought.

Judge [κ ρ ι ν ε τ ω]. Judgment is assigned to the weak brother, contempt to the stronger. Censoriousness is the peculiar error of the ascetic, contemptuousness of the liberal. A distinguished minister once remarked : "The weak brother is the biggest bully in the universe!" Both extremes are allied to spiritual pride.

Hath received [π ρ ο σ ε λ α β ε τ ο]. The aorist points to a definite time - when he believed on Christ, though there is still a reference to his present relation to God as determined by the fact of his reception then, which may warrant the rendering by the perfect.

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Romans 14:3

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