Exposition of I Corinthians 8:1ff. (2): The Term “Conscience” Investigated

In our investigation of the word "conscience" in the Bible we found that this term does not occur in the Old Testament Scriptures. This term in the Dutch language is geweten, even as in the German it is gewissen. However this may be, the concept and operation of man's conscience meets us everywhere in the Old Testament, both for the evil conscience of the wicked as well as the good conscience of those who by grace have their sins forgiven them! In the well-known 19th Psalm we hear the humble...