1 CORINTHIANS 10:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:”
For, 'The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.' — The quotation repeats (cf. v. 25), reinforcing that all belongs to God's dominion, yet does not override the specific warning when idol-sacrifice is explicit.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:28
“But if any man say unto you, This has been offered in sacrifice unto idols; eat not, for his sake that showed it.” Thus it is not at all for any power that they have but as accursed, that he bids abstain from them. Neither then, as though they could injure you, fly from them, (for they have no strength;) nor yet, because they have no strength, indifferently partake: for it is the table of beings hostile and degraded. Wherefore he said, “eat not for his sake that showed it,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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