1 Corinthians 8:10 (WEB)
For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?
Catechism · 1
“It prompted our Lord to utter this curse: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea."” — Catechism footnote: Mt 18:6; Cf. 1 Cor 8:10-13.
Fathers and councils · 4
Jerome
“Is not a brother made to stumble if he sees you sitting at meat in an idol’s temple?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 10.
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Tertullian
“The very first payment of every pupil he consecrates both to the honour and to the name of Minerva; so that, even though he be not said “to eat of that which is sacrificed to idols” nominally (not being dedicated to any particular idol), he is shunned as an idolater.” — editor's note: See 1 Cor. viii. 10.
Read the whole comment“And shall he take a meal where the apostle has forbidden him?” — editor's note: 1 Cor. viii. 10.
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Augustine of Hippo
“On the words of the Gospel, Matt. viii. 8, “I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof,” etc., and of the words of the apostle, 1 Cor. viii. 10, “For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol’s temple,” etc.” — the author cites it
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in On Idolatry Chapter 10.
Cited together in Catechism §2285.
Cited together in Catechism §2285.