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Forbidding to marry. This has been taken as indicating the Church of Rome, but that church only enjoins the celibacy of priests and monks and nuns. Spiritism, or the teaching of demons, enjoins being united only to the "spiritual affinity" and has wrecked many homes.
abstain. Greek. apechomoi. See Act_16:20.
meats = efoods. Spiritist teaching is that animal food is unfavourable to the development of mediumistic power. The permission of Gen_9:3 is significant, coming immediately after the outbreak of 1Ti_6:1-4.
God. App-98.
hath. Omit.
to be received = for (Greek. eis) reception. Greek. metalepsis, Only here.
with. App-104.
thanksgiving. See 1Ti_2:1.
of, &c, = by believers. App-150.
know = have (fully) known. App-132.