1 CORINTHIANS 10:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.”
But if someone says to you, 'This has been offered in sacrifice,' then do not eat it, both for the sake of the person who told you and for the sake of conscience. — The qualifier: if the pagan explicitly indicates idol-sacrifice, refusal is obligatory. The duty is twofold: respect for the pagan informant (who must understand the religious meaning) and for one's own conscience (syneidēsis). Explicit knowledge changes the ethical calculus.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:27
“If one of them that believe not bids you,” says he, “to a feast, and you are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.” See again his moderation. For he did not command and make a law that they should withdraw themselves, yet neither did he forbid it. And again, should they depart, he frees them from all suspicion. Now what may be the account of this? That so great curiousness might not seem to arise from any fear and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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