1 CORINTHIANS 10:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:”
Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience, for, 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.' — Paul permits participation in ordinary commerce (makellon = meat market) without scrupulosity. The quotation (Ps 24:1) establishes God's sovereignty: all food belongs to the Lord. Philosophical anxiety about idol-contact is overcome by this ownership claim.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:25
Having said that “they could not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of the devils,” and having once for all led them away from those tables, by Jewish examples, by human reasonings, by the tremendous Mysteries, by the rites solemnized among the idols ; and having filled them with great fear; that he might not by this fear drive again to another extreme, and they be forced, exercising a greater scrupulosity than was necessary, to feel alarm, lest possibly even without their…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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