Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 8:13
If meat — Of any kind. Who will follow this example? What preacher or private Christian will abstain from any thing lawful in itself, when it offends a weak brother?
If meat — Of any kind. Who will follow this example? What preacher or private Christian will abstain from any thing lawful in itself, when it offends a weak brother?
Verse 1 Corinthians 8:13. _WHEREFORE_, c.] Rather than give any occasion to a Christian to sin against and so to harden his conscience that he should return to idolatry and perish, I would not only a...
WHEREFORE - As the conclusion of the whole matter. IF MEAT ... - Paul here proposes his own views and feelings, or tells them how he would act in order to show them how they should act in these circu...
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...
WHEREFORE. Greek. _dioper._ Here, 1 Corinthians 10:14, and 1 Corinthians 14:13. OFFEND. stumble. Greek. _skandalizo,_ to cast. snare before one. Occurs twenty-six times in the Gospels; here,...
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...
_I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend_ "This abridgment of their liberty is a duty more especially incumbent on all who are possessed of influence." Robertson...
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...
ΔΙΌΠΕΡ. This word is only known to occur here and in ch. 1 Corinthians 10:14, in N.T. Elsewhere it is doubtful. ΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΊΖΕΙ. See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 1:23. ΟΥ̓ ΜῊ ΦΆΓΩ. ‘I will in no wise eat.’...
_I WILL EAT NO FLESH 1 CORINTHIANS 8:11-13:_ We must deny ourselves even concerning what is lawful rather than to cause a weak brother for whom Christ died to stumble. What happened is this; the weak...
ΔΙΌΠΕΡ (G1355) следовательно, по этой самой причине; с _ind._ ΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΊΖΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΚΑΝΔΑΛΊΖΩ (G4624) сбивать кого-л. с пути, искушать (TDNT; NTW, 111-14; TLNT). Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, в...
WHILE THE WORLD STANDETH— Εις τον αιωνα; that is, "as long as I live _INFERENCES.—_From this short, but excellent chapter, we may learn to estimate the true value of _knowledge,_ and to see how worthl...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 8:12-13. And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ. 13 Wherefore, if meat causeth my brot...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 The Practice (1 Corinthians 8:8-13) 8Food will not commend us to God. We are no worse off if we do not eat, and no better off if we do. 9Only take care lest this liberty...
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. MEAT - old English for 'food' in general. MAKE ... TO OFFEND - Greek...
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...
Probably this abstaining from flesh would be practised by St. Paul only where circumstances required it, as at Corinth....
_(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 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...
WHEREFORE. — He states his own solemn determination, arising from the considerations which have just been urged. If a matter of food cause a brother to fall in his Christian course, I will certainly n...
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...
§ 26. THE WEAK CONSCIENCE OF THE OLD IDOLATER. The knowledge of the one Father and Lord upon which the Cor [1251] Church prided itself, had not released all its members from fears respecting the _idol...
sums up the debate in the language of personal conviction: “Wherefore verily” for this last reason above all “if (a matter of) food (βρῶμα, indef.) is stumbling my brother, I will eat no flesh-meats f...
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...
A Demonstration of Brotherly Love Despite the fact that there is only one true God, Paul indicated some converts still held a feeling of reverence for the idols they had long worshiped. They would hav...
(9) Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. (9) The conclusion, which Paul conceives in his own person, that he mi...
_If meat scandalize. That is, if my eating cause my brother to sin. (Challoner) --- Can we put any meat, or life itself, in competition with a soul, and the blood of Christ, which has been shed for th...
“But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 13. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I...
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...
(7) Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled. (8) But me...
REFLECTIONS Who that beholdeth Christ offering his precious soul an offering for sin, and by faith considers the vast and infinite importance of that offering, as it concerns his own soul, would ever...
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...
13._Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend _With the view of reproving more severely their disdainful liberty, he declares, that we ought not merely to refrain from a single banquet rather than i...
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...
WHEREFORE IF MEAT MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND,.... This is the conclusion of the whole, which the apostle makes with respect to himself, and proposes for the imitation of others; that since an imprudent...
Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. Ver. 13. _While the world standeth_] We must stand unchangeably resolved,...
_But take heed lest this liberty of yours_ To eat indifferently of such meats; _become a stumbling-block_ An occasion of doing what they judge unlawful; _to them that are weak_ Uninformed in the truth...
IF MEAT; if my indulgence in a particular kind of food. MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND; be the occasion of leading him into sin. That love which leads a person to deny himself, for the sake of honoring Go...
A warning against the reckless use of Christian liberty:...
WHEREFORE, IF MEAT MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND, I WILL EAT NO FLESH WHILE THE WORLD STANDETH, LEST I MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND. The connection between this passage and the foregoing one is the following...
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...
WHEREFORE, IF MEAT CAUSETH MY BROTHER TO STUMBLE,. WILL EAT NO FLESH FOR EVERMORE, THAT. CAUSE NOT MY BROTHER TO STUMBLE. 'Wherefore' -'And here is the conclusion of. really brilliant scholar!' (McG...
7-13 Eating one kind of food, and abstaining from another, have nothing in them to recommend a person to God. But the apostle cautions against putting a stumbling-block in the way of the weak; lest t...
IF MEAT MAKE MY BROTHER TO OFFEND; suppose therefore it were lawful for me to eat flesh offered to idols, yet if I cannot do it but I shall make my brother sin, I will forbear. Others understand it mo...
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble. [To the Corinthians Paul says "take heed" (1 Corinthians 8:9); but for himse...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II "For if any of such meats make a brother to stumble, I shall not eat it as long as the world lasts," says he, "that I may not make my brother stumble."[28]...
1 Corinthians 8:13 Therefore G1355 if G1487 food G1033 makes G4624 my G3450 brother G80 stumble G4624 (G5719
'Wherefore, if meat causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, in order that I do not cause my brother to stumble.' Paul's conclusion is therefore that he himself would do nothing...
1 Corinthians 8:13. WHEREFORE, IF MEAT MAKETH MY BROTHER TO STUMBLE, I WILL EAT NO FLESH FOR EVERMORE, THAT I MAKE NOT MY BROTHER TO STUMBLE a hyperbolical way of expressing the recoil of his soul fro...
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...
MEAT (βρωμα). Food it should be, not flesh (κρεα).MAKETH MY BROTHER TO STUMBLE (σκανδαλιζε τον αδελφον μου). Late verb (LXX and N.T.) to set a trap-stick (Matthew 5:29) or stumbling-block like προ...
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....
SO THEN. The rule of love prevents creating a fuss over things which are not important and only matters of opinion. If food is the problem, Paul will give up meat altogether, rather than be the cause...
_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...
_Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge._ IGNORANCE 1. Great ignorance may consist with genuine piety. 2. Is a source of much unnecessary anxiety and peril. 3. Is to be deplored and piti...
_And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?_ SUFFERING, THE MEASURE OF WORTH I. The “weak brother” is not of much value in himself; but he is made valuable by the...
_Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth._ S. Chrysostom says: " It is the mark of a good teacher to teach by example as well as precept. The Apostle...
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 10:33; 1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 Corinthians 13:5; 1 Corinthians 6:12;...
Make to offend [σ κ α ν δ α λ ι ζ ε ι]. See on Matthew 5:29. Rev., maketh to stumble. Meat - flesh [β ρ ω μ α - κ ρ ε α]. The former food in general, the latter the special food which causes stumbling...
A twofold sense and interpretation is given of these words. Some understand the apostle speaking thus: "If my eating meat offered to idols be. stumbling-block to any persons, and confirm them in their...