Paul wrote, “Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend” (1 Cor 8:13).
The emphatic nature of his statement is hidden from us in English. He states if meat is a stumbling block to his brethren that he will “eat no flesh.” No is the expression οὐ μή (ou mē). We find in the lexicon this statement on this form of negation:
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