Some eat, with consciousness of the idol — That is, fancying it is something, and that it makes the meat unlawful to be eaten. And their conscience, being weak — Not rightly informed. Is defiled — contracts guilt by doing it.
1 CORINTHIANS 8:7 sunhqei,a| {A} The reading sunhqei,a|, strongly supported by a* A B P Y 33 81 1739 _al,_ was preferred to suneidh,sei (ac D G 88 614 Byz Lect...
Verse 1 Corinthians 8:7. THERE IS _NOT IN EVERY MAN THAT KNOWLEDGE_] This is spoken in reference to what is said, 1 Corinthians 8:4: _We know that an idol is nothing in the world; for some with a_ _c...
HOWBEIT - But. In the previous verses Paul had stated the argument of the Corinthians - that they all knew that an idol was nothing; that they worshipped but one God; and that there could be no danger...
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...
NOT. App-105. EVERY MAN. all. THAT. the. SOME. App-124. CONSCIENCE. i.e. conviction. Greek. _suneidesis,_ but the texts read (first occurance) _sunnetheia_, custom (see John 18:39; John 11:16). The...
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...
_Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge_ See note on 1 Corinthians 8:1. _for some with conscience of the idol_ Some editors read _by familiarity with_instead of _with conscience of_. If so,...
ΣΥΝΗΘΕΊΑΙ אAB. Rec. συνειδήσει DEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. Peshito, Tertullian (_De Pudicitia_ c. 14). It is very difficult here to tell which is likely to be the original reading and which the gloss. The e...
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...
_CAUSING A BROTHER TO STUMBLE 1 CORINTHIANS 8:7-10:_ Some brethren at Corinth had not gained enough spiritual knowledge to know that an idol is nothing at all. They had turned to the Lord but they sti...
Ή ΓΝΏΣΙΣ (G1108) знание. Артикль указывает, что речь идет о конкретном знании, обсуждаемом в этом отрывке, ΣΥΝΗΘΕΊΣΙ (G4914) _dat. sing._ обычай, обыкновение (Schrage). _Instr. dat._ ΈΣΘΊΟΥΣΙΝ _praes...
FOR SOME WITH CONSCIENCE, &C.— _For there are some, who with notions still remaining that the idol may have some efficacy upon the victim, eat of it as a real victim, and their conscience,_ &c. Heylin...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 8:7-12. Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their consci...
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...
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. HOWBEIT. Th...
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...
_(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...
WITH CONSCIENCE OF THE IDOL UNTO THIS HOUR] RV 'being used until now to the idol'; i.e. not having yet been able to shake off the idea that it represents some spiritual power. THEIR CONSCIENCE BEING W...
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...
HOWBEIT THERE IS NOT IN EVERY MAN THAT KNOWLEDGE. — The Apostle had admitted that in theory all have knowledge which should render the eating of things offered to idols a matter beyond question; but t...
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...
“But not in all is there the knowledge”(ἡ γνῶσις) which you and I claim to have (1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 Corinthians 8:10), expressed just now in the terms of the Church confession (1 Corinthians 8:4 ff....
§ 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...
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...
(3) Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for (4) some with (k) conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled...
But knowledge is not in every one, &c. The new converts, who had been Jews, thought that things which had been offered to idols were defiled, unclean, and could not be lawfully eaten: they who had bee...
“Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge. Some, through the habit which they have to this hour of [believing in] the idol, eat the meats as offered to the idol, and their conscience being wea...
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...
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...
7._But there is not in all that knowledge. _He refutes, in a single word, all that he had previously brought forward in their name, showing that it is not enough that they know that what, they do is r...
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...
HOWBEIT, THERE IS NOT IN EVERY MAN THAT KNOWLEDGE,.... The apostle is not speaking of Heathens, in whom there was no knowledge of the one true God, the author of all things, and of the one Lord Jesus,...
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. Ver. 7. _...
_Howbeit, there is not in every man_ In every professing Christian; _that knowledge_ Namely, that there is but one God, and one Lord, and that an idol is nothing, and has no power to defile the meat:...
THAT KNOWLEDGE; that there is but one God, and that idols are nothing. WITH CONSCIENCE OF THE IDOL; thinking that idol deities are realities. AS A THING OFFERED UNTO AN IDOL; with superstitious reve...
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....
The weak in faith defile their conscience:...
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...
HOWBEIT THERE IS NOT IN ALL MEN THAT KNOWLEDGE: BUT SOME, BEING USED UNTIL NOW TO THE IDOL, EAT AS OF. THING SACRIFICED TO AN IDOL; AND THEIR CONSCIENCE BEING WEAK IS DEFILED. 'that knowledge' -To me...
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...
Though some of you know that there is but one living and true God, and that an idol is nothing in the world, and meat is neither sanctified nor polluted by being set before it; yet every one doth not...
Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge [the apostle limits and corrects their statement found in 1 Corinthians 8:1]: _but some, being used until now_ [being but recently converted from paganis...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II We must therefore abstain from these viands not for fear (because there is no power in them); but on account of our conscience, which is holy, and out of...
1 Corinthians 8:7 However G235 not G3756 in G1722 everyone G3956 knowledge G1108 for G1161 some G5100 consciousness...
'Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge, but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.' But not all know fu...
1 Corinthians 8:7. HOWBEIT IN ALL MEN THERE IS NOT THAT KNOWLEDGE: BUT SOME, BEING USED [1] UNTIL NOW TO THE IDOL, EAT AS OF A THING SACRIFICED UNTO AN IDOL; AND THEIR CONSCIENCE BEING WEAK IS DEFILED...
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...
HOWBEIT IN ALL MEN THERE IS NOT THAT KNOWLEDGE (αλλ' ουκ εν πασιν η γνωσις). The knowledge (η γνωσις) of which Paul is speaking. Knowledge has to overcome inheritance and environment, prejudice, fe...
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....
BUT NOT EVERYONE KNOWS THIS TRUTH. The weak brother believed the idol was just as real as God Himself! For this man to eat the meat which had been sacrificed to an idol, he would feel he was participa...
_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...
_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...
_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. I.e_., that an idol and what is offered to it are nothing. _For some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an id...
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 1:10; 1 Corinthians 1:11; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Corinthians 10:29;...
With conscience of the idol [τ η σ υ ν ε ι δ η σ ε ι τ ο υ ε ι δ ω λ ο υ]. The best texts read sunhqeia custom, which occurs only here and John 18:39; see note. Lit., with custom of the idol; i e., as...
These words are brought in as. reason by the apostle why strong Christians should not eat meat offered unto idols, with respect to those that are weak; as if he had said, "Though many of you know that...