Verse 7
7. Howbeit Nevertheless. Whatever you Corinthians may say in your letter, (1 Corinthians 8:1,) it is certain that not in every man is that gnosis. He denies the full accuracy of their statement.
Some Who were doubtless Gentile converts, who could not expel their old habits of thought so but that the impression of the reality of the idol-god would impress their minds.
This was, doubtless, a large class of persons. It was impossible for the more sound-minded Christians to eradicate their lifelong tendencies; and to trample upon them with cool philosophic indifference might be a desolating course.
Conscience of the idol One reading with a habituation of the idol: that is, with their habitual view of the idol, contracted from paganism.
Conscience With a consciousness, intellectual and moral, that recognises it as an idol-god, and not a mere nothing.
Being weak Still under the power of old pagan associations of thought.
Defiled Induced by Christian example to eat, and yet trembling with fear for the imaginary guilt of their own act, they really transgress their own conscience, and are thus condemned; and, perhaps, learn to brave conscience and thus become wicked. Note on Romans 14:23.
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