Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
Ver. 31. Whether therefore ye eat, &c.] Of a reverend Scotch divine it is said, that "he did even eat and drink and sleep eternal life." These common actions also are steps in our Christian walking, despise them not, therefore, but refer them to that supreme scope. Socrates, even in his recreations, profited his companions no less than if he had been reading lectures to them. παιζων ουδεν ηττον ελυσιτελει τοις συνδιατριβουσιν αυτω. (Xenoph.) Plato and Xenophon thought it fit and profitable that men's speeches at meals should be written. Quicquid agas propter Deum agas, saith one. Propter te, Domine, propter te, saith another. (Drus. Apophth.) The glory of God ought to eat up all other ends, as Moses' serpent did the sorcerers' serpents; or as the sun puts out the light of the fire. Jovinian the emperor's motto was, Scopus vitae Christus.