1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- An æmulamur Dominum ? numquid fortiores illo sumus ? Omnia mihi licent, sed non omnia expediunt.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- ἢ παραζηλοῦμεν τὸν κύριον; μὴ ἰσχυρότεροι αὐτοῦ ἐσμεν;
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine On the Morals of the Manichæans, Three Good Reasons for Abstaining from Certain Kinds of Food
34. Again, in another place: "What say I then? that the idol is anything? or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? But the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table and of the table of devils. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He? All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own, but every man what is another’s. Whatso ever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake. …
St John Chrysostom Homilies on First Corinthians, Homily XXIV
Ver. 22 . “Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?” i.e., “Are we tempting Him, whether He is able to punish us, and irritating Him by going over to the adversaries and taking our stand with His enemies?” And this he said, reminding them of an ancient history and of their fathers’ transgression. Wherefore also he makes use of this expression, which Moses likewise of old used against the Jews, accusing them of idolatry in the person of God. “For they,” saith He, “moved Me to jealousy with that which is not God; they provoked Me to anger with their idols.” ( Deut. xxxii. 21 .)
The Fathers are given as they wrote. Where a passage lays the Passion on the Jewish people, the Church teaches that it cannot be charged against all the Jews then living, nor against the Jews of today, and that all sinners were its authors (CCC 597, 598).