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1 Corinthians 10:27
If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast and ye be disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast and ye be disposed to go, whatsoever is set before you eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
Verse 27. _IF ANY - BID YOU_ TO A FEAST] The apostle means any _common meal_, not an idol festival; for to such no Christian could lawfully go. _WHATSOEVER IS SET BEFORE YOU, EAT_] Do not act as the...
IF ANY OF THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT - That are not Christians; that are still pagans. BID YOU TO A FEAST - Evidently not a feast in the temple of an idol, but at his own house. If he asks you to partake...
7. WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Warnings from Israel's past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4)._ 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15). The same subject is continued with this chapter. The...
1 Corinthians 10:23 to 1 Corinthians 11:1. From the meal in the idol's temple Paul passes to the question as it arose in daily life. He repeats that while all might be lawful all was not expedient (1...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not build up. Let no one think only of his own good, but let him think of the good of the ot...
IF. App-118. ANY. App-123. THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT. the unbelievers. Greek. _apistos,_ as in 1 Corinthians 7:12. BID. call. BE DISPOSED. wish. App-102....
_If any of them that believe not bid you_ i.e. to a feast in a private house. Although some of the Corinthians had gone so far as to declare that a Christian might innocently sit at meat in the idol t...
ΕἼ ΤΙΣ ΚΑΛΕΙ͂ ὙΜΑ͂Σ ΤΩ͂Ν�, i.e. to a feast in a private house, not in an idol temple. See ch. 1 Corinthians 8:9. To sit at meat in the idol temple was clearly to be a partaker of the ‘table of daemons...
_TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND WITHOUT OFFENCE 1 CORINTHIANS 10:23-33:_ Christians must be fully convinced that there is such a thing as right and wrong. The Christian is very much out of step with the thin...
ΕΊ (G1487) если. Возможность рассматривается как реальная, ΚΑΛΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΛΈΩ (G2564) призывать, приглашать. Очевидно, христиане часто ходили в гости к неверующим, и некоторые из этих...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 4 Insensitiveness (1 Corinthians 10:23-30) 23 All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up. 24Let no one seek h...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 10:23-33. All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify. 24 Let no man seek his own, but each his...
If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. YE BE DISPOSED TO GO - tacitly implying they...
25 Contestants in the Grecian games had to take an oath that they had been ten months in training, and that they would violate none of the regulations. They lived on a prescribed diet and exercised se...
_(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...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 *WARNINGS FROM ISRAEL’S HISTORY 10:1-13 *SPIRITUAL FOOD AND DRINK 10:1-5 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I do not want you to forget that a...
IF ANY OF THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT.... — How should a Christian act if a heathen friend invited him to a feast? Should he inquire whether there was any sacrificial meat at the feast, and so avoid eating...
CHAPTER 15 FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONS IN discussing the question regarding "things offered unto idols," Paul is led to treat at large of Christian liberty, a subject to which he was always drawn. And pa...
to 1 Corinthians 11:1. § 34. LIBERTY AND ITS LIMITS. The maxim “All things are lawful” was pleaded in defence of the use of the idolothyta, as of other Cor [1541] laxities; so the Ap. has to discuss i...
[1568] parallel. [1569] classical. [1570] Greek, or Grotius' _Annotationes in N.T._ [1571] idd. Liddell and Scott's _Greek-English Lexicon._ [1572] Grimm-Thayer's _Greek-English Lexicon of the N.T...
“DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD” 1 Corinthians 10:23; 1 Corinthians 11:1 There seems to be a, clear distinction in the Apostle's directions between feasting in an idol temple on the one hand, and the acc...
A great warning based on an illustration in Israel's history is contained in these words, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." To this warning the apostle adds that th...
Seeking The Good of Brethren Paul knew all things not morally wrong were lawful, but some of those would not build up or strengthen the church. When Christians have the right to do something, the que...
Eat of any thing, &c. Here at length St. Paul prescribes them a rule by which they were to govern themselves, as to meats that they met with. Buy and eat any thing sold in the market, or of any thing...
“If any of them that believe not bid you, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.” The reading δέ, _but_, may be supported as contrasting t...
(23) All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. (24) Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth. (25) Whatsoev...
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...
27._If any one of them that believe not invites you. _Here follows an exception, to this effect, that if a believer has been warned, that what is set before him has been offered to an idol, and sees t...
The apostle then gives the Corinthians the ways of God with Israel in the wilderness, as instruction with regard to His ways with us, declaring that the things which happened to them were types or fig...
IF ANY OF THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT,.... In Christ, and make no profession of faith in him; but are infidels to his person, office, grace, righteousness, Gospel, and ordinances, as there were many such at...
If any of them that believe not bid you _to a feast_, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake. Ver. 27. _And ye be disposed to go_] Our Sav...
_If any of them that believe not_ Any heathen who lives in your neighbourhood; _bid you to a feast_ Invite you to his house; _and ye be disposed_ To accept the invitation; _whatever is set before you_...
Just as, in the end of chapter 9, Paul shows himself willing to submit to a serious test as to the reality of his Christianity, so in the first of chapter 10 it is plain that all who claim the place o...
IF ONE OF THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT BIDDETH YOU TO. FEAST, AND YE ARE DISPOSED TO GO; WHATSOEVER IS SET BEFORE YOU, EAT, ASKING NO QUESTION FOR CONSCIENCE' SAKE. 'biddeth you to. feast' -'If one of the u...
23-33 There were cases wherein Christians might eat what had been offered to idols, without sin. Such as when the flesh was sold in the market as common food, for the priest to whom it had been given...
The apostle puts another case, in which they might lawfully enough eat of meat offered to an idol; that was in case any of their neighbours, that were heathens, invited them to dinner or supper in a p...
If one of them that believe not biddeth you to a feast, and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake....
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "And if one of the unbelievers call us to a feast, and we determine to go" (for it is a good thing not to mix with the dissolute), the apostle bids us "eat...
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'If one of those who do not believe bids you to a feast, and you are disposed to go. whatever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.' The same principle applies when they are...
1 Corinthians 10:27. IF ONE OF THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT BIDDETH YOU TO A FEAST not an idolatrous festival, but a social feast. AND YE ARE DISPOSED TO GO. Strange to say, this is understood by some (as...
_Attendance at Idolatrous Feasts, 1 Corinthians 10:14_ to 1 Corinthians 11:1 When the first love of the converts began to cool, and, as a natural consequence, they drew closer to their heathen acquain...
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...
BIDDETH YOU (καλε υμας). To a general banquet, but not to a temple feast (1 Corinthians 8:10) which is prohibited. If a pagan invites Christians to their homes to a banquet, one is to act like a ge...
1 Corinthians 10:27 Free to Amusements and too Free to want Them. I. I discover two points, included in the advice Paul gives, neither of which stands out on the face of his words, but they need only...
1 Corinthians 10:15. I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion...
CONTENTS: Israel in the wilderness, a warning example. Fellowship of the Lord's table demands separation. Law of love in relation to eating and drinking. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Moses. CONCLU...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _I would not have you ignorant_ of the grand point, the foundation of the Hebrew religion; _that our fathers,_ for such was the usual language of the jews and proselytes respecting...
IF AN UNBELIEVER. The Christian is not required to _cut himself off_ from society (see 1 Corinthians 5:9-13 and notes). WITHOUT ASKING ANY QUESTIONS. Because of your knowledge that the earth belongs t...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 10:27 WITHOUT RAISING ANY QUESTION. The Christian is not to ask if the food being served had ever been involved in pagan rituals. Such questions are theologically u...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER From speaking of the contest, in which those who deny themselves and strive lawfully are rewarded, and in which the slothful and self-indulgent are condemned and pu...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ 1 Corinthians 10:1.—Notice “_for_,” true reading, connecting closely with ix. _ult. Q.d_. “I am not secure from becoming a ‘castaway’; you are not yet sure of the prize; _for_ it is e...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 _Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations._ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER; rather, _for. _He has just shown them, by his own ex
Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and passed through the sea (1 Corinthians 10:1); Now he is talking about their forefathers w...
1 Corinthians 10:25; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 2 Corinthians 1:13; 2 Corinthians 4:2;...
Our apostle here puts another case: "Suppose an unbeliever, an infidel or heathen, did invite. believer,. Christian, to. feast of civil friendship in his private house, (not to. feast upon. sacrifice...