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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 _...
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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...
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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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COMMENDETH. presenteth. Greek. _paristemi._ See Acts 1:3, and compare
2 Corinthians 11:2.Ephesians 5:27; Colossians 1:22;...
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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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_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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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BUT MEAT, etc.] It is not such matters that make us well-pleasing to
God....
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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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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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(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...
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_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...
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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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“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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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_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:...
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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...
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The weak in faith defile their conscience:...
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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...
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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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ARE WE THE BETTER:
Or, have we the more
ARE WE THE WORSE:
Or, have we the less...
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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...
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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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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...
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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.]...
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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...
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1 Corinthians 8:8 But G1161 food G1033 not G3756 commend G3936 (G5719)
us G2248 God G2316 for G1063 neither
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'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,...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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_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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1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 8:8 Those who had the supposedly
superior “knowledge” (vv. 1 Corinthians 8:1,...
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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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_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...
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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 6:13; Colossians 2:20; Hebrews 13:9; Romans 14:17...
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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....
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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....
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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...