“ Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. ”
Wherefore - In view of the dangers and temptations that beset you; in view of your own feebleness and the perils to which you would be exposed in the idol temples, etc. Flee from idolatry - E...
Paul now deals directly with the problem of idol sacrifice. He appeals to the analogy of the Supper. The Eucharistic cup brings the worshipper into fellowship with Christ's blood, the loaf into fello...
Wherefore . See 1 Corinthians 8:13 . dearly beloved . App-135. idolatry . Greek. eidololatreia. Only here. Galatians 1:5 ; Galatians 1:20 ; Colossians 3:5 ; 1 Peter 4:3 . Compare 2 Corin...
14. Wherefore, my beloved, flee, etc. The Apostle now returns to the particular question, from which he had for a little digressed, for, lest bare doctrine should have little effect among th...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. Therefore - flee from idolatry - This is a trial of no great magnitude; to escape from so gross a temptation requires but a moderate portion of grace...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. Resuming 1 Corinthians 10:7 ; 1 Corinthians 8:9-10 . Flee. Do not tamper with it by doubtful acts, as eating idol meats on the plea of C...
(b) Food offered to Idols In these Chapter s St. Paul answers another question of the Corinthians—as to the lawfulness of eating food which had been offered in sacrifice to idols. This was a ver...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. — These words show that through all the previous argument and warning the writer had in view the particular dangers arising from their contact with...
Chapter 15 FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONS IN discussing the question regarding "things offered unto idols," Paul is led to treat at large of Christian liberty, a subject to which he was always drawn. An...
Have No Fellowship with Evil 1 Corinthians 10:11-22 By the end of the world is meant the end of one great era and the beginning of another. The Jewish dispensation was passing, the Christian...
A great warning based on an illustration in Israel's history is contained in these words, "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." To this warning the apostle adds that t...
(13) There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way t...
A WAY TO ESCAPE ‘God … will with the temptation also make a way to escape.’ 1 Corinthians 10:13 The promise is not that we shall be not tempted, nor that our natural strength shall be the me...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved ,.... Some copies add, "brethren"; as do the Complutensian edition, and Ethiopic version; all which endearing epithets are used to persuade to attend to the exhortation...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry. Ver. 14. Flee from idolatry ] He calleth their sitting at the idol's feasts, though without intent of honouring the idol, by the name of idolatry...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved , &c. To understand what follows, it seems necessary to suppose that the Corinthians, in their letter, put three questions to the apostle concerning meats sacrificed...
Just as, in the end of chapter 9, Paul shows himself willing to submit to a serious test as to the reality of his Christianity, so in the first of chapter 10 it is plain that all who claim the place...
Admonitions and Warnings. A. D. 57. 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we s...
The apostle would have them avoid all sin, but idolatry more especially, keeping at the utmost distance imaginable from that, being of all sins in its kind the greatest transgression; upon which ac...
'For this reason, my beloved, flee from idolatry.' All temptation must be faced in the right way. The way of escape from idolatry is to flee from it. This is significant. It is saying that they are...
CRITICAL NOTES 1 Corinthians 10:1 .—Notice “ for ,” true reading, connecting closely with ix. ult. Q.d . “I am not secure from becoming a ‘castaway’; you are not yet sure of the prize; for it...
1 Corinthians 10:1-4 . Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in...
1 Corinthians 10:1 . I would not have you ignorant of the grand point, the foundation of the Hebrew religion; that our fathers, for such was the usual language of the jews and proselytes respect...
EXPOSITION 1 Corinthians 10:1-46 Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations. 1 Corinthians 10:1 Moreover ; rather, for. He has just shown the...
Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry.
1 Corinthians 10:20 ; 1 Corinthians 10:21 ; 1 Corinthians 10:7 ; 1 John 5:21 ; 1 Peter 2:11 ; 2 Corinthians 11:11 ; 2 Corinthians 12:15 ; 2 Corinthians 12:19 ; 2 Corinthians 6:17 ; 2 Corint...
Types and Analogies 1 Corinthians 10:1-14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By the way of introduction to this study upon "types and analogies," we wish to suggest several things, based upon the following st...
Flee from idolatry — And from all approaches to it.