Ver. 10 enforces (yap) the above warn- ing.—oé τὸν ἔχοντα γνῶσιν, “thee, the man that has knowledge” (see 1): the Cor. pretension to superior enlighten- ment, shown in wv. 2 f. to be faulty in Christian theory, now discloses its prac- tical mischief. The behaviour of the Christian man of knowledge who “‘re- clines (at table) in an idol’s temple,”’ is represented as a sort of bravado—a thing done to show his ‘“‘ knowledge,” his com- plete freedom from superstition about the idol. This act is censured because of its effect upon the mind of others ; in x. 18-22 it will be condemned on its own account. The form εἰδωλίον (or -eiov) occurs in the Apocrypha; it follows the formation of Gr. temple παπηες---᾽Απολλωνεῖον, etc. —ovxl ἡ συνείδησις αὐτοῦ, ἀσθενοῦς ὄντος κ.τ.λ.; “will not his conscience, weak as he is, be ‘edified’ unto eating
844 ΠΡΟΣ ΚΟΡΙΝΘΙΟΥΣ A VIII. 11—13. 1Seei. 18. σεται εἰς τὸ τὰ -εἰδωλόθυτα ἐσθίειν; 1. καὶ] | ἀπολεῖται] ὁ πι Rom. iv. pe σα ας 2 19, xiv. T ” dabevav? ddedpds 2 ἐπὶ ὃ τῇ σῇ "γνώσει,; BV ὃν " Χριστὸς " ἀπέθανεν. figur. 12. οὕτω δὲ “ ἁμαρτάνοντες "εἰς τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς Kal τύπτοντες
sense.
a > A See νετ.7. αὐτῶν τὴν *auveldnow '' ἀσθενοῦσαν, “eis Χριστὸν ° ἁμαρτάνετε.
mn XV. 3; 2
Cor. v.15; 11. 4 διόπερ εἰ * βρῶμα ‘oxavdadiler τὸν ἀδελφόν µου, οὐ ph φάγω
Rom. v. 6
f., vi. Sf, *kpéa εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, ἵνα μὴ τὸν ἀδελφόν µου * * σκανδαλίσω.
Vili. 34, Xiv. 9;
Gal. it. 211 1 Th. iv. 14, v. 10; 1 Pet. iti. 18; Jo. xi. 50 ff. διο, see ΧΙ]. 3.
i. 8; Prov. xxvi. 22. xxdli. 8, xxxil. (XXXV.) 15.
q x. 14. s Rom. xiv. 21, pl.
o See vi. 18. pN.T. 4.1. ; cf.1 Kings r Rom. xiv. 21; Mt. xv. 12, xvii. 27; Sir. ix. 5,
1απολλνται yap: S*B 17, cop. basm., Clem.; απολλυται ουν, ΑΡ.
και απολλυται: SycD*b 46, 67**, Bas.
(late Western and Syrian).
και απολειται: DcGL, etc., vg. syrr.
ο ασθενων εν TY σῃ Ύνωσει, ο αδελφος δι ον κ.τελ. (in this
order): all pre-Syrian uncc. 3 €y, all uncc. but L.
4 The Western texts om. the second pew.
the foods offered to idols ? .---ποί because he is weak (as though overpowered by a stronger mind), but while he is still weak, as under the lingering belief that the idol is “something in the world” (7): “his verbis exprimitur horror infirmi, tamen edentis” (Bg.).—Thus eating unpersuaded ‘“‘in his own mind” (Rom. xiv. 5), he sins (Rom. xiv. 23), and therefore “‘is perish- ing’? (rr). The vb. “edified ”—instead of ‘“‘persuaded’”’ or the like—is used in sad irony (cf. Tert., ‘‘ dificatur ad ruinam,”’ De Prescr. Heretic., 3); P. pro- bably takes up the word in this connex- ion from the Church Letter: the eaters of idolothyta thought their practice ‘‘ edi- fying” to less advanced brethren—“ edi- fying, forsooth |—to what end?”
Ver. 1r. ‘For the weak man [whom you talk of building αρ] is being de- stvoyed through thy knowledge — the brother, on whose account Christ died!” (Rom. xiv. 15). This affirms, with ter- rible emphasis, the issue implied ὃν ver. 10: ‘est edificatio ruinosa’’ (Cv.).—é ἀσθενῶν means (more than 6 ἀσθενής) the man in a continued state of weak- πεςς.---ἐν τῇ of γνώσει, ‘on the ground (or in the sphere) of thy knowledge”; in this atmosphere the weak faith of the other cannot live (cf. év in ii. 4 ; Eph. iv. 16, ἐν ἀγόπῃ). His “knowledge” leaves the tempter inexcusable. ‘Notice the threefold darkness of the picture: there perishes, thy brother, for whom Christ died” (Bt.). Paul appeals to the strongest feelings of a Christian—brotherly love and loyalty to Christ. tive 8.’ dv, cf. Rom. iv. 25; Christ’s death
For the prospec- .
is thus frustrated of its dear object (cf. Gal. ii. 2t) by thy heartless folly !