1 Corinthians 8:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

But to us there is but one God, &c.— One God is exclusive, not of the one Lord, as though he were an inferior Deity, but only of the idols, to which the one God is opposed: to think otherwise would be to destroy the Apostle's own argument for the unity of God, and make him talk as inconsistently, as if he would prove, that there is none other God but one, because, instead of many, there are only two, one supreme and the other subordinate; and then would give such a reason for this, as overturns the distinction itself, by adding that all those things, which are of the Father, are in their utmost latitude by the Son, as one in operation with him, just as at other times, speaking of the Father, all things are said to be by him. Romans 11:36. Hebrews 2:10. In the first of these places, the Father is stiled the Lord, (Κυριος,) without the article, as Christ is here; but by the same way of arguing, which excludes the Lord Jesus Christ from being God, the Father would be excluded from being Lord: or if the Apostle here alludes to the custom of the heathens, who worshipped one or more sovereign deities by inferior demons, called Baalim or Lords, (see the last note,) then what is said of the one Lord Jesus Christ, may be considered as relating, not so directly to what he is in his original nature, as to his office of mediation with God the Father; while he himself is stiled Lord, and the very same works are ascribed to him as to the Father, to shew what a divine Mediator he is. See Mede, Locke, Guyse, Calamy's Sermons on the Trinity, p. 25, and 244. Jones's "Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity," ch. 1 sect. 3 and Waterland's Sermons on the Trinity, p. 48-53.