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;
Moreover х de (G1161)]. So C. But 'Aleph (') A B Delta G f g, Vulgate, read 'For.' Ye need to exercise self-denying watchfulness, notwithstanding your privileges, lest ye be cast-aways (1 Corinthians 9:24-27). FOR most of the Israelites, with all their privileges, were castaways through want of it.
Ignorant - with all their boasted "knowledge."
Our fathers. The Jewish Church is related as parent to the Christian' Church.
All. Arrange as the Greek, 'Our fathers were all under the cloud;' giving the "all" its proper emphasis. Not so much as one of so great a multitude was detained by force or disease (Psalms 105:37). Five times the "all" is repeated in enumerating the five favours God bestowed on Israel (1 Corinthians 10:1-4). Five times, correspondingly, they sinned (1 Corinthians 10:6-10). In contrast to the "all" stands "many (rather, 'the most') of them" (1 Corinthians 10:5). All had great privileges, yet most were cast-aways through lust. Beware you, having greater privileges, of sharing the same doom through a like sin. Continuing 1 Corinthians 9:24. they "run all, but one receiveth the prize."
Under the cloud - under the defense of the cloud-pillar, veiling them from the Egyptians (Exodus 13:21-22; Psalms 105:39).
Passed through the sea - by God's miraculous interposition (Exodus 14:29).