1 Corinthians 8:1
WE ALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE] This remark is probably quoted from the letter of the Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 8:2 are St. Paul's comment on it. CHARITY] RV 'love.'... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ALL HAVE KNOWLEDGE] This remark is probably quoted from the letter of the Corinthians. 1 Corinthians 8:2 are St. Paul's comment on it. CHARITY] RV 'love.'... [ Continue Reading ]
_(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 urgent question. The whole worship of the heathen was sacrificial, and sacrifices were offered by them... [ Continue Reading ]
KNOWN OF HIM] 'We can only know God by love... They who love Him are known of Him because they have intercourse with Him, and this mutual intercourse enables them to know him personally' (Sadler): cp. Galatians 4:9.... [ Continue Reading ]
AN IDOL _is_ NOTHING] i.e. has no spiritual reality behind it.... [ Continue Reading ]
'For us there is but one God the Father, the Source of all things, for whose service we exist, and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whose agency all things were created, and. we Christians created anew.'... [ Continue Reading ]
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 WEAK IS DEFILED] i.e. they have a sense of moral defilement, because their conscience is not properly... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT MEAT, etc.] It is not such matters that make us well-pleasing to God.... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS LIBERTY OF YOURS] i.e. freedom to eat.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 deities. This was a more serious matter than merely eating (at home or at a friend's house) of meat whic... [ Continue Reading ]
PERISH] The result of acting against conscience: cp. Romans 14:23. 'Whatsoever is not of faith' (i.e. done without thorough conviction that it is right) 'is sin.'... [ Continue Reading ]
SIN AGAINST CHRIST] who identifies Himself with His brethren (Acts 9:4; Matthew 25:40).... [ Continue Reading ]
Probably this abstaining from flesh would be practised by St. Paul only where circumstances required it, as at Corinth.... [ Continue Reading ]