Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Timothy 4:3
Forbidding to marry. Not long after Paul's time the superior
holiness of the unmarried life began to be preached in the church, and
this resulted at last in monasticism and a celibate clergy.
[Commanding] to abstain from meats. The ascetic practices which
began to grow up in the church a little later extended to foods. To eat
the least palatable food which would sustain life was counted a virtue.
These ascetics generally forbade animal food, and some lived only on
bread and water. These practices are still found among certain orders
of the Latin and Eastern churches.
Which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving. The foods
which God hath created are for use, to be eaten thankfully by those who
believe and know the truth, instead of having their minds darkened
by delusions.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 7:1
Colossians 2:16
1 Timothy 4:3
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