18Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. …
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-22)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 sacrificed. I. He prefaces his argument with an appeal to their own reason and judgment: “ I speak to wise men, judge you what I say , 1 Cor. 10:15. You are great pretenders to wisdom, to close reason…
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