For the earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
For the earth is the Lord"s and the fulness thereof. Every creature, because it is the Lord"s, is good and clean; Song of Solomon , too, things offered to idols are not unclean, as you suppose, because they have been offered to a devil, but are clean, because created by the Lord. So Chrysostom, Theophylact,, Anselm. Theophylact gives another meaning as well: "Abstain from all food sacrificed to idols, for the whole earth is the Lord"s, and you can be abundantly satisfied from other sources." But this meaning is not suited to the context, especially, to the injunction, "Eat whatever is sold in the shambles."
