ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 8 v4

AN IDOL IS NOTHING. ORIGEN: “An idol is nothing,” says the apostle. One who makes an idol makes what is not. But what is that which is not? A form which the eye does not see but which the mind imagines for itself. HOMILIES ON EXODUS 8.3.

KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT LOVE. AMBROSIASTER: Paul now develops his argument in detail in order to show that knowledge without love is both useless and harmful. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

AN IDOL HAS NO REAL EXISTENCE. AUGUSTINE: Although man has made his own gods, he nevertheless became their captive once he was handed over to their fellowship by his act of worshiping them. … For what are idols but things, as the Scripture says, which “have eyes and see not”? CITY OF GOD 8.

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