{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-82","native_reference":{"book_number":530,"chapter_from":10,"chapter_to":10,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":25,"verse_to":25},"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>Clement of Alexandria</b>: Wherefore daintiness is to be shunned, and we are to partake of few and necessary things. \"And if one of the unbelievers call us to a feast, and we determine to go\" (for it is a good thing not to mix with the dissolute), the apostle bids us \"eat what is set before us, asking no questions for conscience sake.\" Similarly he has enjoined to purchase \"what is sold in the shambles\" without curious questioning.<br/><i>— The Instructor Book 2</i></p><p><b>John Chrysostom</b>: Having said that \"they could not drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of the devils,\" and having once for all led them away from those tables, by Jewish examples, by human reasonings, by the tremendous Mysteries, by the rites solemnized among the idols; and having filled them with great fear; that he might not by this fear drive again to another extreme, and they be forced, exercising a greater scrupulosity than was necessary, to feel alarm, lest possibly even without their knowledge there might come in some such thing either from the market or from some other quarter; to release them from this strait, he saith, \"Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, eat, asking no question.\" \"For,\" saith he, \"if thou eat in ignorance and not knowingly, thou art not subject to the punishment: it being thenceforth a matter not of greediness, but of ignorance.\"</p><p>Nor doth he free the man only from this anxiety, but also from another, establishing them in thorough security and liberty. For he cloth not even suffer them to \"question;\" i.e., to search and enquire, whether it be an idol-sacrifice or no such thing; but simply to eat every thing which comes from the market, not even acquainting one's self with so much as this, what it is that is act before us. So that even he that eateth, if in ignorance, may be rid of anxiety. For such is the nature of those things which are not in their essence evil, but through the man's intention make him unclean. Wherefore he saith, \"asking no question.\"<br/><i>— Homily on 1 Corinthians 25</i></p><p><b>Novatian</b>: Accordingly, it is evident that all these foods enjoy again the blessings they received at their creation, now that the law has ended.<br/><i>— JEWISH FOODS 5.6</i></p><p><b>Severian of Gabala</b>: The conscience referred to here is not the conscience of the one who knows that idols do not exist but the conscience of the one who sees somebody else buying food which has been sacrificed to idols and thinks that it is wrong for that reason.<br/><i>— PAULINE COMMENTARY FROM THE GREEK CHURCH</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: A great argument for another god is the permission to eat of all kinds of meats, contrary to the law. Just as if we did not ourselves allow that the burdensome ordinances of the law were abrogated-but by Him who imposed them, who also promised the new condition of things.<br/><i>— Against Marcion Book V</i></p><p><b>Tertullian</b>: Xerophagies, however, (they consider) the novel name of a studied duty, and very much akin to heathenish superstition, like the abstemious rigours which purify an Apis, an Isis, and a Magna Mater, by a restriction laid upon certain kinds of food; whereas faith, free in Christ, owes no abstinence from particular meats to the Jewish Law even, admitted as it has been by the apostle once for all to the whole range of the meat-market -(the apostle, I say), that detester of such as, in like manner as they prohibit marrying, so bid us abstain from meats created by God.<br/><i>— On Fasting</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"86ef217366cce17e2b5977fa356ac65cd5bb636c75bf29b53f5fb7c598899d75","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":82,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"b9b78f54bb1376e4c2abc5762d78a827b8b83a9acfc79700a31219a5fa0b56fe","translator":null,"work":null}