Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
And—omitted in the oldest manuscripts The absence of the connecting particle gives an emphatical sententiousness to the style, suitable to the subject. The first step to knowledge is to know our own ignorance. Without love there is only the appearance of knowledge.
knoweth—The oldest manuscripts read a Greek word implying personal experimental acquaintance, not merely knowledge of a fact, which the Greek of "we know" or are aware (I Corinthians 8:1) means.
as he ought to know—experimentally and in the way of "love."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 8:2:
Romans 14:2
1 Corinthians 8:1
1 Corinthians 8:3
1 Corinthians 13:2
Galatians 6:3
Revelation 2:14
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