1 Corinthians 8:8 — Greek Interlinear

Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 8:8

“But meat does not commend us to God. For neither if we eat are we the better, nor if we eat not are we the worse.” Do you see how again he takes down their high spirit? In that, after saying that “not only they but all of us have knowledge,” and that “no one knows anything as he ought to know,” and that “knowledge puffs up;” then having soothed them, and said that “this knowledge is not in all,” and that “weakness is the cause of these being defiled,” in order that they…