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What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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An Idol is Still Nothing
Paul asks a rhetorical question to confirm what he taught earlier: an idol is physically nothing, just wood or stone, and the food offered to it is not magically changed. Commentators stress that Paul is not contradicting himself but is clarifying his argument before revealing the true danger.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
What say I then? This is in the present tense: ti oun fhmi, what do I say? What is my meaning? What follows from this? Do I mean …
A thing sacrificed to idols (ειδωλοθυτον). See on Ac 15:29; 1 Corinthians 8:1,4.
Idol (ειδωλον…
19th Century
Anglican
What do I say then?—It might have been argued from the preceding verse that the Apostle admitted the heathen offerings and the id…
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Here Paul compares the OT sacrifices with pagan offerings. When the people of Israel sacrificed at the altar and ate part of the sacrifice ([Refere…
16th Century
Protestant
What do I say then? At first glance, it might seem as if the Apostle either argued inconclusively or ascribed to idols something of existe…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What say I then ? &c.] Or may be objected to, or inferred from, what I say;
that an idol is anyth…
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