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Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
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Verse 4. An idol is nothing. The apostle seems to allude in this place to the Greek signification of this word, ειδωλον, signifying a false representation; as for instance in ghosts, which are said to appear sometimes at night. Umbræ tenues, simulacra luce carentium. Calmet.
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