Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
1 Corinthians 8:1
The Duty of the String Toward Weaker Brethren
SUMMARY OF I CORINTHIANS 8: Meat Offered in Idol Temples. Not Changed
Because So Offered. But Not to Be Eaten Because of Weaker Brethren.
Those Having Knowledge Must Act in Love.
As touching things offered to idols. Corinth, like all Greek cities,
was full of temples to heathen idols. At their altars victims were
constantly sacrificed, the flesh of which was afterwards eaten. The
question arose whether a Christian could eat of such flesh without the
sin of showing deference to an idol. Perhaps the letter to Paul had
asked about this matter (1 Corinthians 7:1).
We all have knowledge. Some pleaded their knowledge that "an idol
was nothing" (1 Corinthians 8:4), not divine in any sense. Paul tells them that
the question is one, not of knowledge, but of charity.
Knowledge puffeth up. Those who professed to be knowing ones put on
an air of superiority.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Romans 15:14
1 Corinthians 8:1
1 Corinthians 8:3
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