1 Coríntios 10:19

19 Mas que digo? Que o sacrificado ao ídolo é alguma coisa? Ou que o ídolo é alguma coisa?

1 Coríntios 10:19 Meaning and Commentary

1 Corinthians 10:19

What say I then?
&c.] 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.

1 Coríntios 10:19 In-Context

17 Pois nós, embora muitos, somos um só pão, um só corpo; porque todos participamos de um mesmo pão.

18 Vede a Israel segundo a carne; os que comem dos sacrifícios não são porventura participantes do altar?

19 Mas que digo? Que o sacrificado ao ídolo é alguma coisa? Ou que o ídolo é alguma coisa?

20 Antes digo que as coisas que eles sacrificam, sacrificam-nas a demônios, e não a Deus. E não quero que sejais participantes com os demônios.

21 Não podeis beber do cálice do Senhor e do cálice de demônios; não podeis participar da mesa do Senhor e da mesa de demônios.