1 Corinthians 8:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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We know that an idol is nothing— This was a common aphorism among the Jews, to which the word אלילים, alilim, which signifies idols, and things of nothing, alluded. See Job 13:4; Job 14:12. Whitby, Hammond, Elsner, and Parkhurst's Lexicon.

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1 Corinthians 8:4

4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.