Verse 1 Corinthians 8:3. But if any man love God] In that way which the commandment requires, which will necessarily beget love to his neighbour, the same is known of him - is approved of God, and acknowledged as his genuine follower.
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BUT IF ANY MAN LOVE GOD - If any man is truly attached to God; if he seeks to serve him, and to promote his glory. The sense seems to be this. “There is no true and real knowledge which is not connect...
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...
LOVE App-135. GOD. App-98. THE SAME. this one. OF. by. App-104....
_But if any man love God, the same is known of him_ Cf. 1 John 4:7-8. But it is observable that St Paul, dealing with inquisitive and argumentative people like the Corinthians and Galatians, takes car...
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...
ΟὟΤΟΣ ἜΓΝΩΣΤΑΙ ὙΠ' ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂. Cf. 1 John 4:10. Also ἡ� _ib._ 1 Corinthians 8:7. St Paul carefully corrects his language in Galatians 4:9, to avoid any mistake on the question of the source whence our mo...
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...
_KNOWLEDGE PUFFS UP 1 CORINTHIANS 8:1-3:_ In their letter to Paul the Corinthian brethren had asked him about meat that had been offered to idols. Paul said this was a subject that everyone had some k...
ΆΓΑΠΦ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΑΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить. Ind. в _conj._ 1 типа, в котором условие рассматривается как истинное, ΈΓΝΩΣΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΓΙΝΏΣΚΩ (G1097) знать (_см._ 1 Corinthians 8:2)....
THE SAME IS KNOWN OF HIM— That is _approved by him._ Such a man has attained the true knowledge of God, and will be sure of his approbation and favour. Mr. Locke would render it, _is made to know,_ or...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 The Principle (1 Corinthians 8:1-3) 8 Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that all of us possess knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2If any one...
But if any man love God, the same is known of him. LOVE GOD - the source of love to our neighbour (1 John 4:11; ; ). THE SAME - literally, this man; he who loves, not he who 'thinks that he...
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...
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....
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...
IF ANY MAN LOVE GOD. — This explains the nature of the love which edifies. Love to God, and therefore love to man, builds up the whole Christian communion. The man gets outside the mere selfish though...
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...
Loveless knowledge is _ruinous_ (1 Corinthians 8:1 _b_); more than that, it is _self-stultifying_. The contrasted hypotheses εἴ τις δοκεῖ ἐγνωκέναι τι (= δοκεῖ σοφὸς εἶναι, 1 Corinthians 3:18) and εἴ...
is one of Paul's John-like sayings. In the apodosis he substitutes, by an adroit turn, “is known (ἔγνωσται : pf. pass [1228] of _abiding effect_ upon the obj [1229]) by God” for “hath come to know God...
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 Question of Christian Liberty The questions sent by the Corinthians to Paul did not end with those on marriage. McGarvey sees the next question as, "Have not Christians perfect liberty to eat meat t...
“Now, as touching things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge, knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth. 2. If any man think that he knoweth anything, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought...
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...
(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...
3._But if any man loves God _Here we have the conclusion, in which he shows what is especially commendable in Christians, and even renders knowledge, and all other endowments worthy of commendation, i...
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 IF ANY MAN LOVE GOD,.... As they do, and show it, who love their brethren, and are careful not to grieve them; and make use of their superior knowledge, not for their destruction, but edification:...
But if any man love God, the same is known of him. Ver. 3. _But if any man love God_] And his neighbour for God's sake; his friends in God, his foes for God. _ The same is known of him_] That is, kn...
_Now_ As to the next question you proposed, namely, _touching things offered_ Meats sacrificed, and so consecrated; _unto idols_ When the heathen offered sacrifices of such animals as were fit for foo...
IS KNOWN OF HIM; as his friend and the object of his love and care. Compare Matthew 7:23....
CHRISTIAN LIBERTY IN THE MATTER OF EATING MEAT OFFERED TO IDOLS. Knowledge and charity:...
BUT IF ANY MAN LOVE GOD, THE SAME IS KNOWN OF HIM. In this chapter the apostle offers the answer to a second question which had been laid before him by the Corinthian Christians: Was it right for a Ch...
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...
BUT IF ANY MAN LOVETH GOD, THE SAME IS KNOWN BY HIM. 'if any man loveth God' -'present tense verb; hence, "if any man keeps on loving God."' (Willis p. 265) _ Points to Note:_ 1. This implies that...
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...
It is of much more advantage to a soul to be known of God, that is, owned, acknowledged, and approved, than to comprehend much of the things of God in its notion. A man may know much of God, and yet b...
but if any man loveth God, the same [i. e., God] _is known by him_. [i. e., the lover of God (1 John 4:7). Before replying to the question, Paul deals with the argument which accompanied it, pointing...
1 Corinthians 8:3 But G1161 anyone G1536 loves G25 (G5719) God G2316 one G3778 known G1097 (G5769) by...
'If any man thinks that he knows anything, he knows not yet as he ought to know, but if any man loves God, the same is known by him.' This applies especially in our relationship to God. We may have 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...
1 Corinthians 8:3. BUT IF ANY MAN LOVETH GOD, THE SAME IS KNOWN OF HIM. See Galatians 4:9. These preliminaries now bring the apostle to his point. 1 Corinthians 8:4. Concerning therefore the eating of...
THE SAME IS KNOWN OF HIM (ουτος εγνωστα υπ' αυτου). Loving God (condition of first class again) is the way to come to know God. It is not certain whether ουτος refers to the man who loves God or to...
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....
BUT THE MAN WHO LOVES GOD. _Love_ means to act toward God as he has already acted toward you. IS KNOWN. Paul substitutes this for the "has come to know" which we might expect. Compare 2 Timothy 2:19....
_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...
_But if any man love God, the same is known of Him._ LOVE THE MEDIUM OF DIVINE KNOWLEDGE I. Its nature. 1. Whence it proceeds. 2. What it implies. 3. What its fruits. II. Its privilege. It secur...
_But if any man love God, the same is known of Him,_ If any, for God's sake, love his neighbour, so as not to make him stumble at seeing him eat of idol sacrifices, &c., but seeks instead to edify him...
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 2:9; 1 John 4:19; 1 John 5:2; 1 John 5:3; 1 Peter 1:8;...
The same is known of Him [ο υ τ ο ς ε γ ν ω σ τ α ι υ π α υ τ ο υ] The same, i e., this same man who loves God. He does not say knows God, but implies this in the larger truth, is known by God. Compar...
He is known — That is, approved, by him. Psalms 1:6....
Observe, The apostle doth not say, if any man know God; but, IF ANY MAN LOVE GOD, the same is known; that is, allowed, accepted, and approved of him.. man may know much of God in this world, and yet G...