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"Not yet," replied the other, "'publica præcedunt privatis." "Go home first." "No, my lord! That I will not do. Tidings may there be awaiting me which will either irritate or delight me, and so either make me too severe or too soft-hearted. The circumstances of the city are at this moment so very serious that, till they have been set right, we must let our private affairs go.
This first sort of idolothites Pareus calls the sacrifices of idols; and from such, he saith, the Apostle dissuadeth by this argument, Participare epulis idolorum, est idololatria. Of the second sort of idolothites, the Apostle begins to speak in ver. 23. The Corinthians moved a question, Whether they might lawfully eat things sacrificed to idols? In privatis conviviis, saith Pareus.
Which shows what a good thing it is when "publica privatis præcedunt," or, in other words, when public duties take precedence of private affairs.
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