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What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? |
What am I saying then? That an idol is anything? |
What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? |
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Do I mean then that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything? |
What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is [intrinsically changed by the fact and amounts to] anything or that an idol is itself a [living] thing? |
Therefore, what am asserting? That that which is sacrificed to idols is anything? Or that an idol is anything? |
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Now am I implying that a false god really exists, or that sacrifices made to any god have some value? Not at all! |
Then what do I mean? That the sacrifice to an idol is a reality, or that an idol itself is a reality? Of course not! |
- No cross references or parallel passage have been cited for this verse.
- The Adversary and His Origin: His Names: His Kingdom: His Organized Government, and His Religion; The Warfare With Satan and the Way of Victory - Jesse Penn-Lewis Before we can apprehend the meaning of the urgent call to overcome, sent to His people by the Risen Lord through His Apostle John, it is necessary that we should unveil the Prince of darkness and his kingdom.
- Satan’s Scriptural Strategies - Neil Girrard Satan’s strategies to oppose, cripple and even destroy the people of Christ are taken straight from the pages of Scripture.