γὰρ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 γὰρ

   gar

   for
2. sentence🔊 ὁ ἐσθίων τὸν μὴ ἐσθίοντα μὴ ἐξουθενείτω ὁ δὲ μὴ ἐσθίων τὸν ἐσθίοντα μὴ κρινέτω ὁ θεὸς γὰρ αὐτὸν προσελάβετο

   ho es-THI-ōn ton mê es-THI-on-ta mê ek-sou-the-NEI-tō ho de mê es-THI-ōn ton es-THI-on-ta mê kri-NE-tō ho the-OS gar au-TON pro-se-LA-be-to

   the the one eating the not the one eating not let him not despise the but not the one eating the the one eating not let him not judge the God for him welcomed

Exegesis

The final clause, ho theos gar auton proselabeto {ὁ θεὸς γὰρ αὐτὸν προσελάβετο | ho the-ós gar au-tón pro-se-lá-be-to} “for God has received him,” uses gar to introduce the ground for both commands. The aorist middle of proselambanō conveys a completed, personally engaged act of divine acceptance. In translation, the participles are rendered as “the one who eats / does not eat” in the formal version to preserve the individualized focus, while the dynamic version generalizes to “those who eat / do not eat” to communicate the distributive, representative sense more naturally in contemporary English. The prohibitions retain their parallelism, and the causal “for/because” clearly ties the communal ethic to God’s prior, decisive welcome.