<p>14:21- see on Acts 18:18.</p><p><i>It is good not to eat meat nor drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble</i>- The 'good' thing here is that spoken of in :16: &quot;So do not let what you regard as good...&quot;. What is good or clean meat is to not do anything that causes your brother to stumble. &quot;Or do anything...&quot; takes this whole argument far beyond the immediate context of whether we can eat pork or only <i>kosher</i> chicken. The principles reach to our day. The legalists were convinced that the Bible taught a difference between clean and unclean food- for &quot;the Bible tells me so&quot;. But the more mature could see that the Lord's words, and the implications of the Lord's sacrifice, meant that these laws should no longer be kept. Because 'the Bible told them so'. And they were in fact right, as Paul labours by twice stating that there is nothing unclean in itself. But they only won on points. The far wider issue was not causing another to stumble by keeping on about the fact, and accepting weaker brethren to only have &quot;doubtful disputations&quot; with them (:1). The principles are so clearly relevant to all the struggles over interpretation and practice which have riddled all the various denominations of Christendom.</p>