4As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
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Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you.
What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? …
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-6)In this passage he shows the vanity of idols: As to the eating of things that have been sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world ; or, there is no idol in the world; or, an idol can do nothing in the world: for the form of expression in the original is elliptical. The meaning in the general is, that heathen idols have no divinity in them; and therefore the Old Testament th…
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