What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
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Gill's Exposition
What say I then?.... Or may be objected to, or inferred from, what I say;
that an idol is anything, or that which is sacrificed to idols is anything? to which must be answered, as the Syriac version…
Barnes' Notes
What say I then? - This is in the present tense; τί οὖν φημι ti oun phēmi, what do I say? What is my meaning? What follows from this? Do I mean to say that an idol is anything; that it has a real…
Adam Clarke
What say I then? - A Jewish phrase for, I conclude; and this is his conclusion: that although an idol is nothing, has neither power nor influence, nor are things offered to idols any thing the worse…
In this passage the apostle urges the general caution against idolatry, in the particular case of eating the heathen sacrifices as such, and out of any religious respect to the idol to whom they were…
Cambridge Bible
What say I then? that the idol is any thing St Paul does not mean to say here, any more than in ch. 1Co 8:4, that an idol, or the god represented by it, has any real objective existence, or that the…
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