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Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

KJV

Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais cette connaissance n'est pas chez tous. Quelques-uns, d'après la manière dont ils envisagent encore l'idole, mangent de ces viandes comme étant sacrifiées aux idoles, et leur conscience, qui est faible, en est souillée.

KJV

Howbeit [there is] not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat [it] as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

Patristic reading

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  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 178 (Migne)

    conscientiam idoli, quasi idolothytum manducant; et conscientia ipsorum cum sit infirma, polluitur (I Cor. VIII, 7) . Quomodo ergo nunc dicit Dominus; quia quod in os intrat, non coinquinat hominem, sed magis quod de ore procedit? SOLUTIO ABAELARDI. Ex hoc loco praecipue in…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 182 (Migne)

    sententiae credulitas, quam quod illa ab Apostolo tantum culpata manducandi idolothyta libertas?» (I Cor. VIII, 7.) Nil plane aliud, si ita esset, ut [Col. 0878D] dicitis. Bene prorsus non potest conscius esse sibi, qui se non implere confidit quod debere se credit. Creditis it…

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