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However, that knowledge isn`t in all men. But some, being used until now to the idol, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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The Lingering Power of Old Beliefs
Commentators explain that not all early Christians had fully shed their former pagan worldviews. Due to lifelong 'familiarity' or 'custom' with idols, some still felt that sacrificed meat was spiritually connected to a false god. Paul calls their conscience 'weak' because their understanding was not yet mature, making them vulnerable to feeling guilty or stumbling back into idolatrous thoughts.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Howbeit. But. In the previous verses, Paul had stated the argument of the Corinthians—that they all knew that an idol was nothing; that th…
Howbeit in all men there is not that knowledge (αλλ' ουκ εν πασιν η γνωσις). The knowledge (η γνωσις) of which Paul is speaking. K…
19th Century
Anglican
Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge.—The Apostle had admitted that in theory all have knowledge that should …
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The knowledge Paul speaks of here is the previously mentioned knowledge regarding an idol and the existence and position of the “so-called gods.” S…
16th Century
Protestant
But there is not in all that knowledge. He refutes, in a single word, all that he had previously set forth as their argument, showing that…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
However, there is not in every man that knowledge The apostle is not speaking of Heathens, in whom there was no know…
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