14, 15. I know, and am persuaded by—or rather, "in"
the Lord Jesus—as "having the mind of Christ" (1Co 2:16).
that there is nothing unclean of itself—Hence it is that he calls those "the strong" who believed in the abolition of all ritual distinctions under the Gospel. (See Ac 10:15).
but—"save that"
to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean—"and therefore, though you can eat of it with out sin, he cannot."