Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
Paul does not suspect ignorance but condemns the outward profession of idolatry, the visible acts and rites of it. To say the heart is not in them is to miss his point entirely; those very acts convict them of idolatry, and with good reason, for God demands not the knee alone but the whole worship of the man.
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Carnal desire indulged is the root of all sin and must be checked at its first rise, before it bears sway and carries us where we cannot foresee. The Corinthians ate and drank before the idol as if the sacrifice had sanctified it; this was idolatry, and the wilderness falls stand as their mirror.
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Commenting on 1 Corinthians 10:6-14
Flee not merely from worshipping idols but from standing at any distance from them; do not enter an idol's temple or sit to eat there, for to partake of things sacrificed to idols is itself a species of idolatrous worship, a partaking of the table of devils.
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