SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:19
¿Qué pues digo? ¿Que el ídolo es algo? ¿O que lo que es sacrificado a los ídolos es algo?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:19
Verse 19. What say I then?] A Jewish phrase for, I conclude; and this is his conclusion: that although an idol is nothing, has neither power nor influence, nor are things offered to idols any thing the worse for being thus offered; yet, as the things sacrificed by the Gentiles are sacrificed to demons and not to God, those who partake of them have fellowship with demons: those who profess Christianity cannot have fellowship both with Christ and the devil.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 19. What say I then ? etc.] Or may be objected to, or inferred from, what I say; that an idol is anything, or that which is sacrificed to idols is anything ? to which must be answered, as the Syriac version reads, al , “no”, by no means; by running the parallel between Christians having communion with the body and blood of Christ, in the Lord’s supper, through eating the bread and drinking the wine, the Israelites partaking of the altar, by eating of the sacrifices of it, and men’s joining with idols and idolaters, by eating things sacrificed to idols; it follows not that an idol has anything of deity in it, and is to be set upon a level with God, when, as he had said before, an idol was nothing, and what he now said did not at all contradict that; or that things offered to idols are to be had in the same account, or to be equalled to, or be thought to have any thing in them, as the elements of the bread and wine in the Lord’s supper, or the sacrifices that were offered by the Israelites on the altar, according to the divine command; he meant no such thing, but only argued from the greater to the lesser, and his sense is more fully declared in the next words.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-22 - Did not the joining in the Lord's supper show a profession of faith in Christ crucified, and of adoring gratitude to him for his salvation Christians, by this ordinance, and the faith therein professed, wer united as the grains of wheat in one loaf of bread, or as the member in the human body, seeing they were all united to Christ, and ha fellowship with him and one another. This is confirmed from the Jewis worship and customs in sacrifice. The apostle applies this to feastin with idolaters. Eating food as part of a heathen sacrifice, wa worshipping the idol to whom it was made, and having fellowship of communion with it; just as he who eats the Lord's supper, is accounte to partake in the Christian sacrifice, or as they who ate the Jewis sacrifices partook of what was offered on their altar. It was denyin Christianity; for communion with Christ, and communion with devils could never be had at once. If Christians venture into places, and joi in sacrifices to the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life, they will provoke God.
Greek Textus Receptus
τι 5101 I-ASN ουν 3767 CONJ φημι 5346 5748 V-PXI-1S οτι 3754 CONJ ειδωλον 1497 N-NSN τι 5100 X-NSN εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S η 2228 PRT οτι 3754 CONJ ειδωλοθυτον 1494 A-NSN τι 5100 X-NSN εστιν 2076 5748 V-PXI-3S
Robertson's NT Word Studies
10:19 {A thing sacrificed to idols} (eidwloquton). See on ¯Ac 15:29; 1Co 8:1,4. {idol} (eidwlon). Image of a god. See on ¯Ac 7:41; 15:20; 1Co 8:4,7.
