- εἰδωλόθυτος
- εἰδωλόθυτος, ον (s. εἴδωλον and θύω; 4 Macc 5:2), only subst. τὸ εἰδωλόθυτον, someth. offered to a cultic image/idol, food sacrificed to idols an expr. which (s. εἴδωλον 2) was possible only within Israelite tradition (cp. Ps.-Phoc. 31 [an interpolation prob. based on Ac 15:29]; Just., D. 34, 8; 35, 1), where it was used in a derogatory sense. Polytheists said ἱερόθυτον (s. ἱερόθυτος). It refers to sacrificial meat, part of which was burned on the altar as the deities’ portion (cp. Orig., C. Cels. 8, 30, 1: τό εἰδωλόθυτον θύεται δαιμονίοις), part was eaten at a solemn meal in the temple, and part was sold in the market (so Artem. 5, 2) for home use. Within the Mosaic tradition it was unclean and therefore forbidden. Ac 15:29 (for lit. s. πνικτός); 21:25; 1 Cor 8:1, 4, 7, 10; 10:19, 28 v.l.; Rv 2:14, 20; D 6:3. (Iren. 6, 3 [Harv. I 55, 10]).—MRauer, D. ‘Schwachen’ in Korinth u. Rom 1923, 40–52; HvSoden, Sakrament u. Ethik b. Pls: Marburger Theol. Stud. 1, ’31, 1ff; GFee, Biblica 61, ’80, 172–97; WWillis, Idol Meat in Corinth: SBLDS 68, ’85; PTomson, Paul and the Jewish Law: CRINT III/1, ’90, 187–220; BWitherington III, Why Not Idol Meat?: BRev 10/3, ’94, 38–43; 54f.—EDNT. TW.
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