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The “knowledge” here is the knowledge that idols are nothing at all. Paul points out that while the “knowers” (as Schreiner refers to them) know idols are nothing, there are those who think of the food as being sacrificed to a god, and so eating it defiles them. Schreiner says that this latter group are so accustomed to having eaten the food in the past in the context of sacrificing to idols, that they still think of these idols as actually being “gods”. This may be the case, but I don’t think it is necessarily so. It may be that idol worship was such a part of life in Corinth, and part of the converts past life, that they still associate eating the food with idol worship, and so it goes against their conscience. “And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled”. For such a person to eat the food would be a sin for them.
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