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What the Fathers say

1 Corinthians 10:19

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

But having said that they have "communion with the altar," afterwards fearing lest he should seem to discourse as if the idols had any power and could do some injury, see again how he overthrows them, saying, "What say I then? That an idol is any thing? …

Homily on 1 Corinthians 24 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

I turn you away from idols not because they have the power to do harm or good, for they are decidedly nothing, but because the sacrifice offered to them does not go to your Master. Therefore he continues.

Commentary on 1 Corinthians ↗