1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 The Jews who came out of Egypt had all sacraments typical of ours, yet many of them perished through sin. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:6 Their examples should serve, as they were intended, for our admonition. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 God will not suffer his servants to be... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; There are two great difficulties in this verse: 1. What is meant by MOSES. 2. How and why the Israelites are said to be BAPTIZED UNTO MOSES. Some understand by _Moses_ the person of Moses; others, the law or doctrine of Moses. Those who by _Moses_ understand the person of Moses, are divide... [ Continue Reading ]
Those of the Jews that perished in the wilderness, did all eat the same manna which Caleb and Joshua ate of, who went into Canaan; or, those Jews that so perished in the wilderness did eat the same spiritual meat that we do, they in the type, we in the antitype. Manna is called SPIRITUAL MEAT: 1. B... [ Continue Reading ]
And all the Jews, as well those that perished in the wilderness, as those that were preserved to go into Canaan, they drank of the water which came out of the rock, of which we read, EXODUS 17:6 NUMBERS 20:11; which water was SPIRITUAL DRINK in the same respects that the manna was _spiritual meat, _... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED; these _many_ were no less than that whole generation, which were at that time twenty years old and upward, according to the threatening, NUMBERS 14:28,29; of the acccomplishment of which we read, NUMBERS 26:64,65. FOR THEY WERE OVER THROWN IN THE WILDE... [ Continue Reading ]
OUR EXAMPLES; our types or patterns (as the Greek word signifies): we may, by God's dispensations to them, learn what God will be to us: as they were patterns to us, of persons enjoying great spiritual privileges; so they are also examples or patterns to show us what we may expect from God, and to d... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER BE YE IDOLATERS, AS WERE SOME OF THEM; the people of Israel, being first enticed to whoredom with the daughters of Moab, were after that invited _to the sacrifices of their gods, and did eat, and bowed down to their gods._ NUMBERS 25:2; so, either worshipped the creature instead of the Creat... [ Continue Reading ]
The story to which this verse relates is that, NUMBERS 25:1. When Balaam could not curse the Israelites, he advised the debauching of them by the Moabitish women, first enticing them to fornication and adultery, then to idolatry: and they were enticed, which caused a plague amongst them, which destr... [ Continue Reading ]
To TEMPT, in the general notion of the term, signifies to make a trial; applied unto God, it signifieth to make a trial of God, either with reference to his power, PSALMS 78:18, or to his truth and goodness: not to be satisfied with God's word, but to challenge him to a sensible demonstration, is to... [ Continue Reading ]
Murmuring signifies the speaking against a person or thing, out of dislike, impatience, or discontent. It was a sin the Jews were very much guilty of, as may be read, EXODUS 15:24, EXODUS 16:7,8 17:3 NUMBERS 14:27, NUMBERS 16:11,41. The apostle may either refer to all their murmurings, when he saith... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW ALL THESE THINGS HAPPENED TO THEM FOR ENSAMPLES; all these dispensations of Divine providence in the revelations of Divine wrath against several sorts of sinners, happened to the Jews, who were God's first and ancient people, and enjoyed those great privileges which were before mentioned, not on... [ Continue Reading ]
LET HIM THAT THINKETH HE STANDETH, either in a right and sound judgment and opinion of things, or in a state of favour with God, or confirmed in a holy course of life and conversation; standeth in grace, ROMANS 5:2. A man may stand in these things, and he may but think that he standeth: be it as it... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; THERE HATH NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU: _temptation_ (as hath been said before) signifieth in the general notion of it no more than trials, and is often so used in holy writ. Now, in regard we are tried either by afflictive providences, or by motions made to us, either from God, or our own lusts... [ Continue Reading ]
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 account it is often in Scripture compared to whoredom. Though we ought to be afraid of and to decline all... [ Continue Reading ]
As to the present case, you are persons that understand the principles of Christian religion, I will make you judges in this case.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is on all hands agreed, that the apostle is here speaking of believers communicating in the sacrament of the Lord's supper. By THE CUP OF BLESSING, he meaneth the cup there, which he so calleth, because we in the taking of it bless the Lord, who gave his Son to die for us, and Christ, for that gr... [ Continue Reading ]
Believers, though MANY, yet ARE ONE BODY, and declare themselves to be one body mystical, by their fellowship together in the ordinance of the Lord's supper; as the bread they there eat is ONE BREAD, though it be made up of many grains of corn, which come into the composition of that loaf or piece o... [ Continue Reading ]
ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH was the whole seed of Jacob, the whole body of the Jewish church; for believers only were Israelites after the Spirit, ROMANS 11:6, called _the Israel of God,_ GALATIANS 6:16. ARE NOT THEY WHICH EAT OF THE SACRIFICES PARTAKERS OF THE ALTAR? If in the Jewish church any persons... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not by this contradict what I before said, nor now affirm that an idol is any thing, or the sacrifices offered to it any thing. An idol hath nothing in it of a Deity, nor can it either sanctify or pollute any thing that is set before it; the error is in your action, as you communicate with such... [ Continue Reading ]
The heathens might not intentionally offer sacrifices to devils, (such a thing can hardly be supposed of men), but actually they offered sacrifices to devils; for they were devils, that is, evil angels, which deluded the poor heathen, and gave answers from the images and statues which they worshippe... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CUP OF THE LORD: we may either take the phrase as signifying all religious communion under one great act of religion, or as particularly signifying having a communion with Christ in the ordinance of the Lord's supper, which is called THE CUP OF THE LORD, either because God hath instituted and ap... [ Continue Reading ]
JEALOUSY is a violent passion in a man, not bearing a companion or a rival as to a thing or person which he loveth. It is in holy writ applied unto God, not to signify any such extravagancy, excess, or vehemence, as attendeth that passion in men, but only his just displeasure at the giving that homa... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THINGS here must necessarily signify many things, or, at least, (as some think), all those things I have spoken of, to eat meat offered to idols, &c. But if we interpret it in the latter sense, it is not true without limitations; for the apostle had but now determined, that to eat meat offered t... [ Continue Reading ]
It is the duty of every one who is a disciple of Christ, not merely to look at his own pleasure or profit, but the profit and advantage of others. CHARITY SEEKETH NOT HER OWN, (saith the apostle, 1 CORINTHIANS 13:5), that is, it seeketh not its own with the prejudice of another. So as admit that in... [ Continue Reading ]
It is possible that butchers, before they brought their meat into the market, might offer some part of it to the idol; or it is possible that the priests, who had a share in the beasts offered to idols, or the people that had offered such beasts, who, also had a share returned them, might out of cov... [ Continue Reading ]
This sentence is taken out of PSALMS 24:1. The earth is God s, or the Lord Christ s, who hath sanctified all things for the use of man, and all the variety of creatures that are in it are sanctified by him. An idol cannot pollute any kind of meat, it hath no such malign influence upon any thing; you... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle puts another case, in which they might lawfully enough eat of meat offered to an idol; that was in case any of their neighbours, that were heathens, invited them to dinner or supper in a private house (some add, or in the idol's temple, if it were a feast of friendship, not a feast upon... [ Continue Reading ]
The meat being out of the idol's temple, and returned to a common use, there could be no impiety in eating it, no communion with devils, and partaking of the table of devils, in and by such an action; but yet there might be a breach of charity in the action, that is, in case one were there present,... [ Continue Reading ]
By reason of what we had, 1 CORINTHIANS 10:28, (where the apostle forbade eating these meats, in case any at the feast told them they had been offered to idols, both for his sake that told him so, and also for conscience sake), it is most reasonable to interpret those words _not thine own_ in this v... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; IF I BY GRACE BE A PARTAKER; if I by the goodness of God, whose the earth is, and the fulness thereof; or by the grace of knowledge, by which God hath given me to understand that I may do that, as to which others less knowing stumble; can eat such meat (out of the idol's temple) as part of i... [ Continue Reading ]
The apostle, in these three last verses, layeth down three rules, to direct Christians how to use their liberty as to things that are of an indifferent nature, neither in themselves commanded nor forbidden in the word of God. His first rule is in this verse, to do whatsoever we do _to the glory of G... [ Continue Reading ]
OLBGrk; We use to say, that men are offended when they are grieved or angered; but these offences are not here meant, (as appears by the Greek phrase, Aproskopoi ginesye) but give no occasion of sin or stumbling. This care he commands us, with reference to all men; for at that time all the world fe... [ Continue Reading ]
EVEN AS I PLEASE ALL MEN IN ALL THINGS; that is, in all things wherein the law of God hath left me a liberty; for Paul pleased no man, either in the omission of any thing which God had commanded him to do, or in the doing of any thing which God had forbidden him to do. NOT SEEKING MINE OWN PROFIT, B... [ Continue Reading ]