<p>4:3 <i>Forbidding to marry</i>- This fits with our comments upon Paul's encouragement of female child-bearing in chapter 2. The Diana cult forbad their female followers to marry and have children. Paul is not making a global command to women to marry and have children, rather is he countering the false teaching of the Diana cult which had affected some sisters in the Ephesian church.</p><p><i>And to abstain from food- which God created to be received with thanksgiving</i><i>- </i>Jewish false teaching which was also a pressure upon those in Ephesus.</p><p><i>By them that believe and know the truth</i>- Not 'know and believe'. 'Knowing the truth' is used by Paul to refer to an ongoing relationship with the Lord; he doesn't mean 'those who correctly understand a set of theologies'. We ought to be deeply, deeply moved by the fact that we have been called into God's world, into His sphere of vision. He even created the different types of meats &quot;to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth&quot;; they were made for us, not the world, and therefore <i>we </i>ought to give thanks for our food with this realization.</p>