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1 Corinthians 8:7

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 detestation of the demons to which they are dedicated, are we to loathe them; and further, on account of the instability of those who regard many things in a way that makes them prone to fall, "whose conscience, being weak, is defiled: for meat commendeth us not to God."[20]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II

; sins of deed, by the rapacious and carnivorous birds. The sow delights in dirt and dung; and we ought not to have "a conscience" that is "defiled."[155]

Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book V "Knowledge is not in all,"[44]

Tertullian On Modesty

But, so sinning, by shocking the weak consciences of the brethren thoroughly, they will sin against Christ."[148]

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  • A Textual Commentary On The Greek New Testament by Bruce M. Metzger

    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...

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _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,...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    _(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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    “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....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “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...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. _...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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:...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The weak in faith defile their conscience:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 8:7 However G235 not G3756 in G1722 everyone G3956 knowledge G1108 for G1161 some G5100 consciousness...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    '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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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....

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    _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...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 1:10; 1 Corinthians 1:11; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1 Corinthians 10:29;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    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...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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 — con...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    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...

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