1 Corinthians 10:29 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For why is my liberty judged of— Some think that the meaning is, "Why should I use my liberty so, as to offend the conscience of any?"—Others think it is an objection in the mouth of the Corinthians, and to be thus understood: "But why should I suffer myself to be thus imposed upon, and receive law from any, where Christ has left me free?" Rather, perhaps, this and 1 Corinthians 10:30 are to be considered as comingin by way of parenthesis, to prevent the Corinthians from extending the former caution beyond what the Apostle designed by it; as if he had said, "as to what immediately lies between God and my own soul, why is my liberty to be judged, arraigned, and condemned at the bar of another man's conscience?—I am not in such cases to govern myself by the judgment and apprehension of others; nor have they any authority to judge or censure me for not concurring with them in their own narrow notions and declarations." See Doddridge, Locke, and Whitby.