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29. ἑαυτοῦ. For the usual σεαυτοῦ. Winer, Gr. Gram. § 22, refers to Joh 18:34. But B (followed by Westcott and Hort) reads σεαυτοῦ there. Winer gives some instances of this unusual construction from classical authors.
ἱνατί γάρ. The connection is as follows. ‘I don’t say your conscience, but the other man’s. For what right has he to judge you, or to interfere with your Christian liberty? No, he has nothing to do with your conscience. But yon may have a good deal to do with his. If you should inflict an injury on that, you would be greatly to blame.’ In other words no man has any right to pronounce ab extra on another man’s conduct on such matters. Each is free to act, as far as he himself is concerned, according to his own sense of what is fitting and proper. But a man’s right to think for himself is limited by the effect of his action on others. If his conduct be the means of inducing others less enlightened than himself to act contrary to their conscience, and to do what they believe to be wrong, he is doing harm by the exercise of a liberty which in any other case he undoubtedly enjoys.