Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I know, and am persuaded by—or rather, "in"
the Lord Jesus—as "having the mind of Christ" (I Corinthians 2:16).
that there is nothing unclean of itself—Hence it is that he calls those "the strong" who believed in the abolition of all ritual distinctions under the Gospel. (See Acts 10:15).
but—"save that"
to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean—"and therefore, though you can eat of it with out sin, he cannot."
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