1 Corinthians 10:21 (WEB)
You can’t both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t both partake of the table of the Lord and of the table of demons.
Fathers and councils · 10
Cyril of Jerusalem
“…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.
Read the whole comment“What he says, is to this effect: Before Thy coming, the evil spirits prepared a table for men, polluted and defiled and full of devilish influence; but since Thy coming.” — editor's note: Cyril refers to the idolatrous feasts, which St. Paul calls “the table of devils,” 1 Cor. x. 21.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“Also the blessed apostle has said, “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 21.
Read the whole comment“…certificates, as if they thought that they would escape those ensnaring nets of the devil; whereas, not less than if they had approached to the wicked altars, they were held fast by the very fact that they had testified to him; and against those who had used those certificates when made, although they had not been…” — editor's note: [1 Cor. x. 21, where tables and altars are used as synonymes.]
Read the whole comment“Also, the apostle testifies, and says, “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils; ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 21.
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Augustine of Hippo
““The things,” brethren, saith the Apostle, “which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice unto devils, and not to God; we know that an idol is nothing: and that what the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God; and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 4, x. 20, 21.
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Jerome
“Although “unto the pure all things are pure,” and “nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving,” still we ought not to drink the cup of Christ, and, at the same time, the cup of devils.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 21.
Read the whole comment“…of the apostle: “ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils,” and in another place: “what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial?”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 21.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“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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Tertullian
“…to the departed; nay, we do not partake of what is offered either in the one case or the other, for we cannot partake of God’s feast and the feast of devils.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. x. 21.
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Cross-references · 13
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Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
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Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
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Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 30.
Cited together in Epistles Letter 9.