Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1 Corinthians 8:6
'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.'
'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.'
1 CORINTHIANS 8:6 auvtou/ At the close of the verse several witnesses (including 0142 234 460 618) expand Paul’s reference to one God, the Father, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by adding kai. e]n pneu/...
Verse 1 Corinthians 8:6. _BUT TO US_ THERE _IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER_] Who produced all things, himself uncreated and unoriginated. _And we_ _in him_, καιημειςειςαυτον, _and we_ FOR _him_; all inte...
BUT TO US - Christians. We acknowledge but one God, Whatever the pagan worship, we know that there is but one God; and he alone has a right to rule over us. ONE GOD, THE FATHER - Whom we acknowledge a...
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...
IN. unto. App-104. Compare Romans 11:36. LORD. App-98. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. BY. by means of. App-104. 1 Corinthians 8:1. Compare John 1:3.
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...
_to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things_ There is but one eternal First Cause and fountain of existence. Compare for the whole passage Ephesians 4:5-6. "The ancient doctors hav...
Ὁ ΠΑΤΉΡ, ἘΞ ΟὟ ΤᾺ ΠΆΝΤΑ. There is but one eternal First Cause and fountain of existence. Compare for the whole passage Ephesians 4:5-6. ‘The ancient doctors have not stuck to call the Father the _orig...
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...
_AN IDOL IS NOTHING 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4-6:_ Paul and the knowledgeable brethren understood that none of the idols were alive. They could say nothing and do nothing. These heathen idols have no divinity...
ΕΙΣ ΘΕΌΣ (G1520; G2316) один Бог, с последующим Ό ΠΑΤΉΡ (G3588; G3962) Отец, в аппозиции. έξ ΟΎ от Которого; указывает на происхождение. ΕΙΣ (G1530) ΑΎΤΌΝ (G846) для Него, указывает на будущую цель ...
BUT TO US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, &C.— _One God_ is exclusive, not of the _one Lord,_ as though _he_ were an inferior Deity, but only of _the idols,_ to which _the one God_ is opposed: to think otherwis...
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...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 8:4-6. Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. 5 For...
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. TO US - believers. OF WHOM - from whom, as the...
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...
8:6 of (b-10) 'Of,' _ ek_ ; 'for,' _ eis_ ; 'by,' _ dia_ ....
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 TO US. — Though this be so, yet for us Christians there exists but one God the Father, from whom alone every created thing has come, and for (not “in”) whom alone we exist; and one Lord Jesus Chri...
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...
§ 25. KNOWLEDGE OF THE ONE GOD AND ONE LORD. In inquiring from their Ap. “about the εἰδωλόθυτα,” the Cor [1217] had intimated their “knowledge” of the falsity of the entire system of idolatry. Here Pa...
affirms in positive Christian terms, as 1 Corinthians 8:4 _b_ stated negatively and retrospectively, the creed of the Cor [1249] believers. The “one God” of O.T. monotheism is “to us one God the Fathe...
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...
Real Deity When an animal was sacrificed, only a small portion was burned. The rest was either eaten by the sacrificer or sold. The heathen looked on this meat as specially blessed. It seems some of t...
But to us [there is but] one God, the Father, (f) of whom [are] all things, and we (g) in him; and (h) one Lord Jesus Christ, (i) by whom [are] all things, and we by him. (f) When the Father is disti...
To us there is but one God, the Father; of whom all things, and we unto him. Of or from the Father are all things, even the eternal Son and the Holy Ghost, though they are one and the same God with th...
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...
“For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, as there be gods many, and lords many, 6. but to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in Him, a...
(1) Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. (2) And if any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet...
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...
6._But to us there is but one God, the Father _Though Paul says these things by anticipation, he repeats the excuse made by the Corinthians, in such a way as at the same time to convey instruction. Fo...
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 TO US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER,.... In this Christians and Jews agree with the best and wisest philosophers of the Gentiles, that there is but one God; which is clear from the perfections...
But to us _there is but_ one God, the Father, of whom _are_ all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom _are_ all things, and we by him. Ver. 6. _But to us there is but one God_] Be...
_As_, &c. To proceed, therefore, to the question in debate; _concerning the eating of those things that are offered unto idols_ Meats of whatever kind sacrificed to them. _We know that an idol_ Or the...
OF WHOM; as the source. IN HIM; rather, as the margin, unto or for him; created to promote his glory. BY WHOM; by whose agency. Enlightened Christians hold with unshaken confidence to the unity of G...
The knowledge of idols and the knowledge of God:...
BUT TO US THERE IS BUT ONE GOD, THE FATHER, OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS AND WE IN HIM; AND ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY WHOM ARE ALL THINGS AND WE BY HIM. After the parenthetical sentence the apostle here ret...
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...
IN HIM: Or, for him, Romans 11:36...
YET TO US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER, OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE UNTO HIM; AND ONE LORD, JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM ARE ALL THINGS, AND WE THROUGH HIM. 'yet to us there is one God' -'And what....
1-6 There is no proof of ignorance more common than conceit of knowledge. Much may be known, when nothing is known to good purpose. And those who think they know any thing, and grow vain thereon, are...
Whatever the idolatrous heathens think or believe, to us (who are Christians) THERE IS BUT ONE who is truly and essentially GOD, (though indeed there be more than one person in the Deity), THE FATHER,...
yet to us there is one God, the Father [contradicting the many], _of whom are all things_ [whose creatorship undeifies all other beings, reducing them to mere creatures], _and we unto him_ [created as...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians For says the apostle, "There is one God, the Father, of whom are all things; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things."[15] Epistle of Ignatius to the Ph...
1 Corinthians 8:6 yet G235 us G2254 one G1520 God G2316 Father G3962 of G1537 whom G3739 things G3956 and...
'Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one. For though there be that are called gods, whether in he...
1 Corinthians 8:6. YET TO US (Christians) THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER, OF WHOM ARE ALL THINGS as their primal _Source,_ AND WE UNTO HIM as their last _End;_ AND ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THROUGH WHOM AR...
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...
YET TO US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER (αλλ' ημιν εις θεος ο πατηρ). B omits αλλ' here, but the sense calls for it anyhow in this apodosis, a strong antithesis to the protasis ( EVEN IF AT LEAST ,...
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....
YET THERE IS FOR US. This affirms what 1 Corinthians 8:4 said negatively. "We Christians acknowledge only one God the Father and only one Lord, Jesus Christ. This contrasts with the many gods and lord...
_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...
_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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 8:4 Paul agrees with what the Corinthians KNOW, that idols do not represent real “GODS.” There is only one Go
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 12:3; 1 Corinthians 6:13; 1 Corinthians 8:4; 1 Peter 1:2;...
Yet to us — Christians. There is but one God — This is exclusive, not of the One Lord, as if he were an inferior deity; but only of the idols to which the One God is opposed. From whom are all things...