McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries
1 Corinthians 8:8
But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. [There is no inherent virtue either in eating or fasting.]
But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better. [There is no inherent virtue either in eating or fasting.]
Verse 1 Corinthians 8:8. _MEAT COMMENDETH US NOT TO GOD_] No such feasts as these can be a recommendation of our souls or persons to the Supreme Being. As to the _thing_, considered in _itself_, the _...
BUT MEAT COMMENDETH US NOT TO GOD - This is to be regarded as the view presented by the Corinthian Christians, or by the advocates for partaking of the meat offered in sacrifice to idols. The sense is...
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...
COMMENDETH. presenteth. Greek. _paristemi._ See Acts 1:3, and compare 2 Corinthians 11:2.Ephesians 5:27; Colossians 1:22;...
_But meat commendeth us not to God_ Rather, PRESENTETH US. Cf. 2 Corinthians 4:14; Colossians 1:22; Colossians 1:28. The same word is used in...
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...
ΠΑΡΑΣΤΉΣΕΙ אAB. παρίστησι rec. with DE Vetus Lat. Vulg. Orig. ΟΥ̓́ΤΕ ἘᾺΝ ΦΆΓΩΜΕΝ. This is the order of אDEFG Vetus Lat. Vulg. (authorized ed.) and Peshito, and many of the earlier Fathers. Lachmann, T...
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...
ΠΑΡΑΣΤΉΣΕΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G3936) представлять, представлять для подтверждения или осуждения (RP). Это слово использовалось в _знач._ приводить кого-л. к судье (Fee; Schrage). ΦΆΓΩΜΕΝ...
MEAT COMMENDETH US NOT TO GOD— Ου παριστησι, _sets us not before God;_ that is, to be taken notice of by him. It cannot be supposed that St. Paul, in answer to a letter of the Corinthians, should tell...
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 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...
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. COMMENDETH. So G f g, Vulgate. But 'Aleph (') A B [parasteese], 'shall, prese...
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...
BUT MEAT, etc.] It is not such matters that make us well-pleasing to God....
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...
BUT MEAT.... — By showing that the eating is a matter of indifference, the Apostle introduces his reason for yielding to the weakness of another. If the weakness involved a matter of our vital relatio...
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...
βρῶμα δέ κ. τ. λ.: “But _food_ will not present us to God,” _non exhibebit nos Deo_ (Mr [1259]): that on the ground of which the verdict turns may be said to “present” one to the judge. To “commend” i...
§ 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...
(5) But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. (5) An anticipation of an objection: why then will we therefore be deprived...
_Meat doth not commend us to God. It is an admonition to those, who because they knew that meats offered to idols were not worse, would not abstain, even when this scandalized the weak brethren: he te...
“Now meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. 9. But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling - b...
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...
8._Meat recommendeth us not to God _This was, or may have been, another pretext made use of by the Corinthians — that the worship of God does not consist in meats, as Paul himself teaches in his Epist...
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...
BUT MEAT COMMENDETH US NOT TO GOD,.... These words are said by the apostle, either as expressing the argument of such as had knowledge in favour of themselves, that what they did was a thing indiffere...
But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse. Ver. 8. _But meat commendeth us not_] This is another objection: meat is indiff...
_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:...
MEAT; food of any kind, as the original word implies. To those who have knowledge it is one of the indifferent things. For this reason they ought to be considerate and kind towards their weak brethren...
The weak in faith defile their conscience:...
BUT MEAT COMMENDETH US NOT TO GOD; FOR NEITHER, IF WE EAT, ARE WE THE BETTER; NEITHER, IF WE EAT NOT, ARE WE THE WORSE. All the believers of Corinth agreed with Paul in his great confession concerning...
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...
ARE WE THE BETTER: Or, have we the more ARE WE THE WORSE: Or, have we the less...
BUT FOOD WILL NOT COMMEND US TO GOD: NEITHER, IF WE EAT NOT, ARE WE THE WORSE; NOR, IF WE EAT, ARE WE THE BETTER. 'commend' -'change our place in God's sight' (Con); 'God's approval of us is not bas...
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...
The apostle here speaketh in the person either of those teachers amongst them, or those more private persons amongst them, who made no difficulty of eating meat offered to idols; they objected, that m...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II The natural use of food is then indifferent. "For neither if we eat are we the better," it is said, "nor if we eat not are we the worse."[22] Clement of...
1 Corinthians 8:8 But G1161 food G1033 not G3756 commend G3936 (G5719) us G2248 God G2316 for G1063 neither
'But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.' So the strong should remember that the eating of food will never commend us to God,...
1 Corinthians 8:8. BUT MEAT WILL NOT COMMEND US TO GOD: NEITHER, IF WE EAT, ARE WE THE BETTER; NOR IF WE EAT NOT, ARE WE THE WORSE. [2] [2] The order of these clauses is reversed in some texts; but a...
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...
WILL NOT COMMEND (ου παραστησε). Future active indicative of παριστημ, old word to present as in Acts 1:3; Luke 2:22; Colossians 1:28. Food (βρωμα) will not give us an entree to God for commendation...
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....
FOOD, HOWEVER. The false teacher must have said: "Since the gospel allows us to eat this meat which has been sacrificed to idols, and since eating it does not make us either better or worse, it is par...
_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...
_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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 8:8 Those who had the supposedly superior “knowledge” (vv. 1 Corinthians 8:1,...
_But meat commendeth us not to God._ The eating of idol sacrifices or of any other food is in itself no help towards piety, which makes us acceptable to God. Therefore, we that are string ought not, u...
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 6:13; Colossians 2:20; Hebrews 13:9; Romans 14:17...
Commendeth - not [ο υ π α ρ α σ τ η σ ε ι]. Lit., present. Rev., more correctly, will not commend. See on shewed himself, Acts 1:3....
But meat commendeth us not to God — Neither by eating, nor by refraining from it. Eating and not eating are in themselves things merely indifferent....
As if the apostle had said, "It is not the eating or not eating, barely considered, that makes. man either better or worse, more or less acceptable in the sight of God, but we must take great heed les...