{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-85","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":28,"verse_to":28},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: \"But if any man say unto you, This hath been offered in sacrifice unto idols; eat not, for his sake that showed it.\"</p><p>Thus it is not at all for any power that they have but as accursed, that he bids abstain from them. Neither then, as though they could injure you, fly from them, (for they have no strength;) nor yet, because they have no strength, indifferently partake: for it is the table of beings hostile and degraded. Wherefore he said, \"eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake. For the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.\"</p><p>Seest thou how both when he bids them eat and when they must abstain, he brings forward the same testimony? \"For I do not forbid,\" saith he, \"for this cause as though they belonged to others: (\"for the earth is the Lord's:\") but for the reason I mentioned, for conscience sake; i.e., that it may not be injured.\" Ought one therefore to inquire scrupulously? \"Nay\" saith he \"for I said not thy conscience, but his. For I have already said, 'for his sake that showed it.'\" And again, v. 29, \"Conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other's.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 25</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: If the creature is defiled by a mere word, as the apostle teaches, \"But if any one say, This is offered in sacrifice to idols, you must not touch it,\" much more when it is polluted by the dress, and rites, and pomp of what is offered to the gods.<br/><i>— De Corona</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3ea051fb06e110de4a51c1a5e7eed02f205482cc632c1c42c68feab2577ab13b","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":85,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c3f11d6a4a3ae1f951fcffb925b6ad9a6dcddec1146d1dfb118e8daef76cb4ca","translator":null,"work":null}