We then that are strong. — The opening verses of the chapter are intimately connected with the close of the last. Not only ought those who are strong in faith to be careful what they do in the matter of meat and drink, but in all things they should show sympathy and consideration for their weaker brethren. This unbroken continuity in the two Chapter s would be enough to show that the Epistle cannot originally have ended with Romans 14.
Bear the infirmities. — Take them upon ourselves, act as if they were our own, and, at the same time, by our sympathy relieve the consciences of the weak.