1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 19 Holy Bible
What say I then? that a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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Do I say, then, that what is offered to images is anything, or that the image is anything?
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What then do I say? that what is sacrificed to an idol is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?
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What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
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what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - What say I then? What is it, then, which I am maintaining (φημι)? That the idol is anything. St. Paul repudiates an inference which he had already denied (1 Corinthians 8:4). Is anything. Has any intrinsic value, meaning, or importance. In itself, the idol offering is a mere dead, indifferent thing. Of itself, the idol is an eidolon - a shadowy, unreal thing, one of the elilim; but in another aspect it was "really something," and so alone could the rabbis account for phenomena which seemed to imply the reality of infernal miracles ('Avoda Zarah,' fol. 54, 2; 55, 1; and see note in 'Life of St. Paul,' 2:74).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) What say I then?--It might have been argued from the preceding verse that the Apostle admitted the heathen offerings and the idols to which they were offered to be as real as were the offerings and Being to whom the altar was erected by Israel, whereas in 1Corinthians 8:4 he had asserted the contrary.
