They even made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to their idol, and held a celebration over what their own hands had made.

As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.

But it is not everyone that has this knowledge; for some, through being long accustomed to idols, still eat meat that has been sacrificed to them as really offered to an idol, and their consciences, being oversensitive, are troubled.

For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols?

What am I saying then? That there is any such thing as being offered to an idol, or any such thing as an idol?