Matthew Poole and continuators on Romans 14:2

2. For one believeth that he may eat all things , another, who is weak, eateth herbs .

i. e. One that is informed aright of his Christian Liberty, is fully perswaded, and that upon good grounds, that he may eat any thing that is wholsome, though forbidden by the Ceremonial Law; that there is now no difference of clean and unclean Meats. vid. Mat. 15.11. Act. 10.12, 13, 14, 15.

i. e. He that (as before) is weak in Faith, and not so well informed, such a one for fear of offending God by eating any thing that is forbidden, will rather content himself with the meanest diet. The meaning is not, as if any in those times, thought it lawful only to [illegible: 1 letter]eat hearbs, and so abstained altogether from other meats; but they would rather satisfie themselves with Herbs, and other Fruits of the Earth, in which the Law of Moses, made no difference then eat meats that were forbidden, or not cleansed from blood, or offerd to Idols, &c. vid. Dan. 1.8.