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1 CORINTHIANS 8:10 se,
Several witnesses, including î46 B F G vg Origenlat Augustine
Pelagius, lack se,. Copyists are more likely to have omitted the
pronoun, thus generalizing the apostle’s stateme...
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Verse 1 Corinthians 8:10. _IF ANY MAN SEE THEE WHICH HAST KNOWLEDGE_]
Of the true God, and who art reputed for thy skill in Divine things.
_SIT AT MEAT IN THE IDOL'S TEMPLE_] Is it not strange that...
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FOR IF ANY MAN - Any Christian brother who is ignorant, or anyone who
might otherwise become a Christian.
WHICH HAST KNOWLEDGE - Who are fully informed in regard to the real
nature of idol worship. Y...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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SEE. App-133.
SIT AT MEAT. sitting down.
IDOL'S TEMPLE. Greek. _eidoleion._ Only here.
CONSCIENCE. Greek. _suneidesis._
WHICH. since he.
EMBOLDENED. Literally built up. Greek. _oikodomeo,_ as in 1...
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_For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the
idol's temple_ St Paul would seem here to be putting an extreme case.
He supposes the more enlightened believer to have carried his vie...
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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...
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ἘᾺΝ ΓΆΡ ΤΙΣ ἼΔΗΙ ΣῈ ΤῸΝ ἜΧΟΝΤΑ
ΓΝΩ͂ΣΙΝ ἘΝ ΕἸΔΩΛΕΊΩΙ ΚΑΤΑΚΕΊΜΕΝΟΝ. St
Paul here puts an extreme perhaps, but by no means an impossible case.
We can imagine a strong-minded believer arguing thus, when a...
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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...
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_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...
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SIT AT MEAT IN THE IDOL'S TEMPLE— Entertainments among the heathens
commonlyconsistedofwhathadbeensacrificedtotheirfictitiousdeities;fromwhich,
however, the truly pious among Christians religiously ab...
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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...
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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...
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For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the
idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be
emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
IF ANY MA...
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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...
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8:10 weak, (d-22) Lit. 'the conscience of him weak.' emboldened (e-24)
Lit. 'edified,' 'built up.'...
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_(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...
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SEE THEE.. SIT AT MEAT IN THE IDOL'S TEMPLE] This was what their
boasted liberty had brought them to. Some of the Christians had
actually partaken of a feast held in honour of some of the heathen
deit...
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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...
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FOR IF ANY MAN (_i.e.,_ any of the weak brethren) SEE THEE WHICH HAST
KNOWLEDGE. — The fact of your being avowedly advanced in the
knowledge of the faith will make your example the more dangerous,
bec...
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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...
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enforces (γάρ) the above warning. σὲ τὸν ἔχοντα
γνῶσιν “thee, the man that has knowledge” (see 1): the Cor
[1262] pretension to superior enlightenment, shown in 1 Corinthians
8:2 f. to be faulty in Ch...
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§ 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(6) For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the
idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be
emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
(6) Anoth...
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In the idol's temple. [1] It does not seem likely that any Christians
would go to eat with idolaters in their very temples, of things
offered to their idols: so that we may rather understand any place...
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“For if any man see thee, which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the
idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be
emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols? 11. And so...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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10._If any one see thee. _From this it appears more clearly, how much
liberty the Corinthians allowed themselves; for when the wicked made a
kind of sacred banquet for their idols, they did not hesita...
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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...
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FOR IF ANY MAN SEE THEE WHICH HAST KNOWLEDGE,.... That is, not any
person whatever; not one that has equal knowledge, and can with a good
conscience take the same liberty; but one that is weak in the...
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For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's
temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to
eat those things which are offered to idols;
Ver. 10. _Be...
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_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...
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EAT THOSE THINGS; as real sacrifices to idols, and thus be guilty of
idolatry, and of acting in opposition to his conscience....
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A warning against the reckless use of Christian liberty:...
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FOR IF ANY MAN SEE THEE WHICH HAST KNOWLEDGE SIT AT MEAT IN THE IDOL'S
TEMPLE, SHALL NOT THE CONSCIENCE OF HIM WHICH IS WEAK BE EMBOLDENED TO
EAT THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE OFFERED TO IDOLS,...
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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...
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EMBOLDENED:
_ Gr._ edified...
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FOR IF. MAN SEE THEE WHO HAST KNOWLEDGE SITTING AT MEAT IN AN IDOL'S
TEMPLE, WILL NOT HIS CONSCIENCE, IF HE IS WEAK, BE EMBOLDENED TO EAT
THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS?
'For' -a case in point.
'A MAN'...
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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...
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Here the apostle showeth how they sinned in eating meat in the idol's
temple, which had been before offered to the idol, admitting the thing
in itself lawful, (which indeed it was not), viz. accidenta...
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For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's
temple [Literally, idoleum, or idol-house; a term coined by the Jews
to avoid desecrating the word "temple" by applying it to seat...
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Tertullian On Idolatry
will yet frequent the Quinquatria? The very first payment of every
pupil he consecrates both to the honour and to the name of Minerva; so
that, even though he be not said "to e...
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1 Corinthians 8:10 For G1063 if G1437 anyone G5100 sees G1492 (G5632)
you G4571 who G3588 have G2192 ...
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'But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a
stumblingblock to the weak. For if a man sees you who have knowledge
sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he...
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1 Corinthians 8:10. FOR IF A MAN SEE THEE WHO HAST KNOWLEDGE of the
emptiness of idols and the lawfulness of all food SITTING AT MEAT IN
AN IDOL'S TEMPLE. The word here used (in the Greek of the Old
T...
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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...
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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...
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IF A MAN SEE THEE WHICH HAST KNOWLEDGE SITTING AT MEAT IN AN IDOL'S
TEMPLE
(εαν γαρ τις ιδη [σε] τον εχοντα γνωσιν
εν ειδωλειω κατακειμενον). Condition of third
class, a possible case. Paul draws th...
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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...
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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....
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SUPPOSE A MAN. "Your example may have great influence over a weak
brother, and encourage him to do something which he believes to be
wrong....
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_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...
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_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...
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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 8:10 EATING IN AN IDOL’S
TEMPLE. See note on 8:1–11:1. Paul elsewhere uses DESTROYED to mean
eternal destruction ...
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_Sit at meat in the idol's temple._ Erasmus takes the word which we
have _idol's temple_ to mean idol's feast. The text, however, gives
the better translation. S. Paul speaks of their siting at meat i...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 10:20; 1 Corinthians 10:21; 1 Corinthians 10:28; 1
Corinthians 10:29;...
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Idol's temple [ε ι δ ω λ ε ι ω]. Only here in the New
Testament. See on Revelation 2:14.
Be emboldened [ο ι κ ο δ ο μ η θ η σ ε τ α ι]. Lit., be
built up. The A. V. misses the irony of the expression...
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For if any one see thee who hast knowledge — Whom he believes to
have more knowledge than himself, and who really hast this knowledge,
that an idol is nothing — sitting down to an entertainment in an...
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The meaning of the apostle seems to be this: If any man with an
erroneous conscience goes to these feasts, and there sees thee, (who
he thinks has more knowledge than himself,) sit at meat in the idol...