1 Corinthians 9:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Could I not eat and drink of such things offered to idols as well as you? Have not I as great a knowledge, and as much liberty? Yet, you see, I forbear. But the generality of interpreters rather incline to interpret it by what followeth: then, though it be here shortly expressed, and more fully opened afterward, yet the sense is: Have not I power to ask a maintenance of you, by which I should be enabled to eat and drink?

1 Corinthians 9:4

4 Have we not power to eat and to drink?