Catena Fidei

1 Corinthians 10:19 (WEB)
What am I saying then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

Fathers and councils · 4

Tertullian, A Treatise on the Soul Chapter 3
“Would to God that no “heresies had been ever necessary, in order that they which are approved may be made manifest!”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 19.
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Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures Lecture 20
“…of the Holy and Adorable Trinity were simple bread and wine, while after the invocation the Bread becomes the Body of Christ, and the Wine the Blood of Christ, so in like manner such meats belonging to the pomp of Satan, though in their own nature simple, become profane by the invocation of the evil spirit.” — editor's note: Compare St. Paul’s argument against meats offered to idols, 1 Cor. x. 14–21: and on Cyril’s Eucharistic doctrine, see notes on Cat. xxii.
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Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations Oration 11
“For he laid hold of their desire in its wandering in search of God, in order to distort to himself the power, and steal the desire, leading it by the hand, like a blind man asking a road; and he hurled down and scattered some in one direction and some in another, into one pit of death and destruction.” — editor's note: It was a very general belief in the early Church that the gods whom the heathen worshipped were in reality actual evil spirits; and this belief is certainly…
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Augustine of Hippo, The City of God VIII.24Book VIII
“Whence the apostle says, “We know that an idol is nothing, but those things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons, and not to God; and I would not ye should have fellowship with demons.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 19, 20.
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