An idol is nothing. The apostle seems to allude in this place to the Greek signification of this word, Greek: eidolon, signifying a false representation; as for instance in ghosts, which are said to appear sometimes at night. Umbræ tenues, simulacra luce carentium. (Calmet)
Verse 1 Corinthians 8:4. _THINGS THAT ARE OFFERED IN SACRIFICE_] See on the first verse. See on the first verse, 1 Corinthians 8:1 _AN IDOL_ IS _NOTHING IN THE WORLD_] Dr. Lightfoot translates this,...
AS CONCERNING THEREFORE ... - The parenthesis closes with 1 Corinthians 8:3. The apostle now proceeds to the real question in debate, and repeats in this verse the question, and the admission that all...
5. CONCERNING MEATS OFFERED TO IDOLS: CHRISTIAN LIBERTY GOVERNED BY LOVE CHAPTER 8 _ 1. Concerning things sacrificed to idols and knowledge. (1 Corinthians 8:1)._ 2. True knowledge and liberty gove...
1 CORINTHIANS 8. LET THOSE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE CONTROL ITS EXERCISE BY LOVE, LEST THEY RUIN THEIR BROTHER FOR WHOM CHRIST DIED. Paul begins with a quotation from the church letter. They claim that all...
ADVICE TO THE WISE (1 Corinthians 8:1-13) 8 With reference to things offered to idols--we are well aware that we all possess knowledge; but knowledge inflates a man, whereas love builds him up. If an...
AS CONCERNING. Greek. _peri,_ as in 1 Corinthians 8:1. EATING. Greek. _brosis_. THOSE. the. THINGS... IDOLS. Same word as in 1 Corinthians 8:1, though it is translated by. longer phrase. NOTHING....
_we know that an idol is nothing in the world_ Some have rendered, _that there is no idol in the world_, but the rendering in the text gives the clearest sense; "A name without a thing, a mere figment...
1 Corinthians 8:1-13. The Question of Meats offered in Sacrifice to Idols There is a great general similarity between this chapter and Romans 14. The question comes before the reader there in a somew...
4. [ἕτερος] after ΘΕΌΣ omit אABDEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. Irenaeus. Rec. inserts with Peshito. Most probably a marginal gloss. 4. ΠΕΡῚ ΤΗ͂Σ ΒΡΏΣΕΩΣ. The Apostle now comes more closely to the point than in...
THE QUESTION OF MEATS OFFERED IN SACRIFICE TO IDOLS There is a great general similarity between this chapter and Romans 14. The question comes before the reader there in a somewhat different form. The...
_AN IDOL IS NOTHING 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4-6:_ Paul and the knowledgeable brethren understood that none of the idols were alive. They could say nothing and do nothing. These heathen idols have no divinity...
ΒPΏΣTΣ (G1035) еда. О сущ. с таким суффиксом, обозначающим действие, _см._ МН, 373. ΕΊΔΩΛΟΘΎΤΩΝ _gen. pl._ (_см._ 1 Corinthians 8:1) то, что приносится в жертву идолу. Obj. _gen._ ΟΪΔΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind....
WE KNOW THAT AN IDOL IS NOTHING— This was a common aphorism among the Jews, to which the word אלילים, _alilim,_ which signifies _idols,_ and _things of nothing,_ alluded. See Job 13:4; Job 14:12. Whit...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 8:4-6. Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. 5 For...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 The Persons (1 Corinthians 8:4-7) 4 Hence, as to the eating of food offered to idols, we know that an idol has no real existence, and that there is no God but one. 5For a...
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one. AS CONCERNING ....
31 The transient, fleeting character of all of this world's relationships and experiences should warn us not to let them take an undue hold upon our hearts. We cannot but use the world to a limited ex...
8:4 know (a-12) Two Greek words are used for 'to know' in the New Testament -- _ ginosko_ and _ oida_ . The former signifies objective knowledge, what a man has learned or acquired. The English expre...
_(B) FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS_ In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a very ur...
AN IDOL _is_ NOTHING] i.e. has no spiritual reality behind it....
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 8 THE PROBLEM 8:1-13 V1 Now I want to deal with the question about food that someone has *sacrificed to *idols. We know that we all have k...
AS CONCERNING THEREFORE THE EATING OF THOSE THINGS. — See 1 Corinthians 8:1. The subject resumed after the parenthesis. We have, perhaps, in this repetition of the words a characteristic of a letter w...
CHAPTER 12 LIBERTY AND LOVE THE next question which had been put to Paul by the Corinthian Church, and to which he now replies, is "touching things offered unto idols," whether a Christian had libert...
After his thrust at Cor [1233] γνῶσις, P. resumes, with οὖν (_cf._ 1 Corinthians 11:17-20), from 1 Corinthians 8:1 the question “About the eating of idolothyta,” repeating the “we know” at which he ha...
§ 25. KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONE GOD AND ONE LORD. In inquiring from their Ap. “about the εἰδωλόθυτα,” the Cor [1217] had intimated their “knowledge” of the falsity of the entire system of idolatry. Here Pa...
CONSIDERATION FOR OTHERS' WEAKNESS 1 Corinthians 8:1 It was the heathen custom of the time to present for blessing in the idol temples the food that was sold and bought in public marketplaces. A grav...
The apostle next dealt with the subject of "things sacrificed to idols." The question evidently was whether the members of the Church in Corinth ought under any circumstances to eat parts of the heath...
Real Deity When an animal was sacrificed, only a small portion was burned. The rest was either eaten by the sacrificer or sold. The heathen looked on this meat as specially blessed. It seems some of t...
(2) As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto (d) idols, we know that an idol [is] (e) nothing in the world, and that [there is] none other God but one. (2)...
I. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF OUR NEIGHBOUR'S SALVATION. 8:1-9:22. The apostle proves that if there is a knowledge which all equally possess (1 Corinthians 8:1-6), there remains a d...
“Now, as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge, knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 2. If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought...
(1) Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. (2) And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
4._Concerning, therefore, the eating of those things _He now returns to the statement with which he had set out, and speaks more plainly in reference to the pretext made use of by the Corinthians. For...
After this the apostle answers the question respecting meats offered to idols, which gives occasion to a few words on the value of knowledge. Simply as knowledge, it is worth nothing. If we look at it...
AS CONCERNING THEREFORE THE EATING OF THOSE THINGS,.... The apostle having enlarged on the head of knowledge, which those who made an ill use of their Christian liberty urged in favour of their conduc...
As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol _is_ nothing in the world, and that _there is_ none other God but one. Ver. 4. _Is no...
_As_, &c. To proceed, therefore, to the question in debate; _concerning the eating of those things that are offered unto idols_ Meats of whatever kind sacrificed to them. _We know that an idol_ Or the...
THAT AN IDOL IS NOTHING; that the deity which it represents has no existence, and that the idol is therefore a powerless and vain thing....
AS CONCERNING, THEREFORE, THE EATING OF THOSE THINGS THAT ARE OFFERED IN SACRIFICE UNTO IDOLS, WE KNOW THAT AN IDOL IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD, AND THAT THERE IS NONE OTHER GOD BUT ONE....
The knowledge of idols and the knowledge of God:...
Chapter s 1 Timothy 4 have given God's answer to worldly wisdom; Chapter s 5 to 7 have dealt with questions concerning the flesh: now chapter 8 turns to the matter of Satanic influence, and this is fu...
CONCERNING THEREFORE THE EATING OF THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS, WE KNOW THAT NO IDOL IS ANYTHING IN THE WORLD, AND THAT THERE IS NO GOD BUT ONE. 'we know' -with absolute confidence and certainty. Yes...
1-6 There is no proof of ignorance more common than conceit of knowledge. Much may be known, when nothing is known to good purpose. And those who think they know any thing, and grow vain thereon, are...
OLBHeb; THOSE THINGS THAT ARE OFFERED IN SACRIFICE UNTO IDOLS; meat which is part of that sacrifice which hath been offered to an idol, whether it be to be eaten in the idol's temple, or in a private...
Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world [Isaiah 44:9-20], _and that there is no God but one_....
Epistle of Ignatius to the Antiochians And those very apostles, who said "that there is one God,"[19] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven...
1 Corinthians 8:4 Therefore G3767 concerning G4012 eating G1035 idols G1494 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 idol...
'Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in he...
1 Corinthians 8:3. BUT IF ANY MAN LOVETH GOD, THE SAME IS KNOWN OF HIM. See Galatians 4:9. These preliminaries now bring the apostle to his point. 1 Corinthians 8:4. Concerning therefore the eating of...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
As part of the sacrificial victims went to the market, it was liable to be served to Christians at the tables of their heathen friends; and as festive entertainments were often held in the idol temple...
NO IDOL IS ANYTHING IN THE WORLD (ουδεν ειδωλον εν κοσμω). Probably correct translation, though no copula is expressed. On ειδωλον (from ειδος), old word, see on Acts 7:41; Acts 15:20; 1 Thessalonia...
CONTENTS: Meats offered to idols, and the limitations of Christians' liberty. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: There is nothing in the distinction of food that will make any distinction be...
1 Corinthians 8:4. _We know that an idol is nothing._ St. Paul transcribes this from Zechariah 2:18, where the Hebrew text is literally “dumb nothings,” for dumb idols; a phrase used by the Gnostics....
WE KNOW THAT AN IDOL. "Most of we Christians know that an idol has no reality or power. There is only one God. There can be no other. (See note on Romans 16:27_.)"_...
_How as touching things offered to idols._ LIBERTY AND LOVE 1. The question about meats necessarily arose in a society partly heathen and partly Christian. Every meal was dedicated to the household g...
_We know that an idol is nothing in the world._ AN IDOL NOTHING IN THE WORLD A singular phenomenon, known as the Spectre of the Brocken, is seen on a certain mountain in Germany. The traveller who at...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4 Paul agrees with what the Corinthians KNOW, that idols do not represent real “GODS.” There is only one Go
_We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other than God but One._ An idol is not what it is commonly supposed to be, not what it stands for, is not God. It has no Divine p...
CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER In this Chapter he treats of the second general question put before him by the Corinthians. It dealt with things offered to idols, and whether it was lawful to eat...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ N.B. 1.—See the question discussed in this chapter homiletically treated under 1 Corinthians 6:12. N.B. 2.—Note how Paul here (as in Romans 14:15.) bases nothing of his reply to th...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 8:1 _The relation of lore to knowledge with respect to the question of eating idol offerings._ 1 CORINTHIANS 8:1 AS TOUCHING THINGS OFFERED UNTO IDOLS. This was doubtless...
Now, the second issue: Now as touching the things offered unto idols, we know that we have all knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up (1 Corinthians 8:1). A contrast between knowledge and...
1 Corinthians 10:19; 1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 8:6; 1 Timothy 1:17;...
We know that an idol is nothing — A mere nominal god, having no divinity, virtue, or power....
If idols are nothing, why does God condemn idolatry? PROBLEM: Paul affirms here that “an idol is nothing in the world.” Yet the Bible repeatedly condemns idolatry (cf. Exodus 20:4), and even Paul sai...
One argument which the Gnostics used to prove the lawfulness of eating things offered unto idols was this, That an idol was nothing in the world. But how nothing? It was not materially nothing, for it...