1 Corinthians 10:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10 1 Corinthians 10:1-5 The Jews who came out of Egypt had all sacraments typical of ours, yet many of them perished through sin. 1 Corinthians 10:6-12 Their examples should serve, as they were intended, for our admonition. 1 Corinthians 10:13 God will not suffer his servants to be tempted beyond their strength. 1 Corinthians 10:14-22 Christians must flee idolatry, and not by partaking of idol sacrifices own fellowship with devils. 1 Corinthians 10:23-30 Even in the use of things lawful we should consult the good of others, 1 Corinthians 10:31 and refer all we do to God's glory, 1 Corinthians 10:32,33 careful to give none offence, after the apostle's own example. The apostle saw that many in this church of Corinth were puffed up with their knowledge, and other gifts and great privileges with which God had blessed them; as also with the opinion of their being a gospel church, and some of the first-fruits of the Gentiles unto Christ, and might therefore think, that they needed not to be pressed to such degrees of strictness and watchfulness; therefore, to beat them off from this confidence and vain presumption, the apostle here sets before them the example of the church of the Jews: when he tells them, he would not have them ignorant, his meaning is, he would have them know and remember, he would have them well acquainted with and to reflect upon this, that all the Jews in Moses's time, whom he calls their fathers, not according to the flesh, for the Corinthians were not descended from Jews, but with respect to the covenant, and their relation they stood unto God, as they were the only people God had on earth; these, he saith, were all of them (the whole camp of Israel) under very great privileges, of which he reckoneth divers: they were under the conduct of the cloud, Exodus 13:21; and they all obtained the favour of God so far for them, as to divide the Red Sea, so as they passed through it upon dry ground.