The House of God

This divine discourse on the House of God, the House of this Dispensation, is brought forth by reason of an inquiry made of the Apostle by the saints at Corinth, touching their further fellowship with idol sacrifices.
How commonly has the wisdom of God been brought to us, through our ignorance! In various ways we erect our altars to "the unknown God,"-but He, upon that, in grace declares, Himself to us. Just as new and fresh blessings have come to us, by reason of our own failures -or, as redemption itself has been displayed because of our sin, our great apostasy, our condition of self-wrought ruin.
" Now as touching things offered unto idols," writes the Apostle, at the opening of this fine and weighty scripture; and these words intimate, that he is addressing himself to some communication he had received from the Corinthians on the subject.
He then takes up this matter, "eating things offered in sacrifice to idols," beginning, however, to consider or discuss it, on the lowest ground, as I may say.