Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy — By thus caressing his rivals? Are we stronger than he — Are we able to resist, or to bear his wrath?
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy — By thus caressing his rivals? Are we stronger than he — Are we able to resist, or to bear his wrath?
Verse 22. _DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY?_] All idolatry is represented as a sort of spiritual _adultery_; it is giving that heart to Satan that should be devoted to God; and he is represented as...
DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? - That is, shall we, by joining in the worship of idols, “provoke” or “irritate” God, or excite him to anger? This is evidently the meaning of the word παραζηλοῦμε...
7. WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Warnings from Israel's past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4)._ 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15). The same subject is continued with this chapter. The...
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 fellow...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
So then, my beloved ones, avoid everything that has to do with idols. I speak as I would to sensible men; pass your own judgment on what I am saying. Is not this blessed cup on which we ask the blessi...
PROVOKE... TO JEALOUSY. Greek. _parazelod._ See Romans 10:15. LORD. App-98. ARE WE, &C. This question is introduced by _me_, expecting. negative answer. Notice the vividness given to the apostle's ar...
_Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy?_ i.e. as the Jews had done to their cost See note on last verse. Cf. also Numbers 14; Deuteronomy 1; Deuteronomy 32:21 (see note on...
The danger of eating Meats sacrificed to Idols shewn from the example of Sacrificial Feasts in general 15. _I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say_ Even in the plenitude of his Apostolic authorit...
Ἢ ΠΑΡΑΖΗΛΟΥ͂ΜΕΝ ΤῸΝ ΚΎΡΙΟΝ; i.e. as the Jews had done to their cost. See note on last verse. Cf. also Numbers 14; Deuteronomy 32:21; Psalms 95:8; Hebrews
THE DANGER OF EATING MEATS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS SHEWN FROM THE EXAMPLE OF SACRIFICIAL FEASTS IN GENERAL...
_HAVING COMMUNION WITH CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS 10:15-22:_ The children of Israel in the wilderness saw more miracles than anyone before them or after them. Yet they turned to idolatry. The very nature of...
Ή (G2228) или. ΠΑΡΑΖΗΛΟΎΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΖΗΛΌΩ (G3863) проводировать ревность, заставлять завидовать (_см._ Deuteronomy 32:21). О предложном сочетании _см._ МН 320. ΜΉ (G3361) вводит во...
DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD, &C.?— This alludes to the idea under which idolatry is represented as a kind of spiritual adultery, which moved the jealousy of God; though every deliberate sin is, in effect,...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 3 Indulgence (1 Corinthians 10:14-22) 14 Therefore, my beloved, shun the worship of idols. 15I speak as to sensible men; judge for yourselves what I say. 16The cup of bless...
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? - by dividing our fellowship between Him and idols (). The Greek has 'Or' preceding 'Shall we yield...
25 Contestants in the Grecian games had to take an oath that they had been ten months in training, and that they would violate none of the regulations. They lived on a prescribed diet and exercised se...
10:22 jealousy? (d-7) See Deuteronomy 32:16 ,Deuteronomy 32:21 ....
PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY] (from Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21. Cp. Exodus 20:5) by dividing an allegiance. ARE WE STRONGER THAN HE?] This was really what the conduct of those who frequented...
_(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 very ur...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 10 *WARNINGS FROM ISRAEL’S HISTORY 10:1-13 *SPIRITUAL FOOD AND DRINK 10:1-5 V1 *Brothers and *sisters, I do not want you to forget that a...
YE CANNOT... — Here follows the special reason why the Apostle desires them not to partake of the wine poured forth in libation to devils, or the table on which meat sacrificed to these devils was spr...
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. And pa...
This lively apostrophe sets in the strongest light the inconsistency of Cor [1537] Christians who conform to idolatry, the untenability of their position. “You cannot drink the Lord's cup and the cup...
§ 33. THE COMMUNION OF THE LORD, AND OF DEMONS. A further warning the Ap. will give against dalliance with idolatry, based on Christian practice as the former was based on Israelite history. He points...
HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH EVIL 1 Corinthians 10:11 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 age comin...
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 th...
Eating At the Idol's Table It was certainly true, as Paul admitted in 1 Corinthians 8:3, that an idol was not a real god. However, there was some reality behind the idol. The Greeks considered an idol...
“Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of demons; 22. or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than He?...
3. THE APPLICATION OF THESE EXAMPLES TO THE CHURCH OF CORINTH. 1 CORINTHIANS 10:12-22. The parallel which the apostle had proposed to draw between the Israelites and Christians is closed. He now makes...
II. THE QUESTION CONSIDERED FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE SALVATION OF THE STRONG THEMSELVES. 9:23-10:22. As Paul concluded the preceding development by giving his own example, he introduces the following...
(16) The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? (17) For we being many are one bread,...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
22._Do we provoke the Lord _? Having laid down the doctrine, he assumes a more vehement tone, from observing, that what was a most atrocious offense against God was regarded as nothing, or, at least,...
The apostle then gives the Corinthians the ways of God with Israel in the wilderness, as instruction with regard to His ways with us, declaring that the things which happened to them were types or fig...
DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY?.... As they do who are guilty of idolatry in any shape: nothing is more highly resented by God, or stirs him up more to wrath and fury, and to inflict punishment; h...
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? Ver. 22. _Do we provoke the Lord_] As Caligula that dared his Jove to a duel; as the raging Turk at the last assault of Scodra most horrib...
_What say I then_ Do I, in saying this, allow that _an idol is any thing_ divine? _Or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing_ Is a sacrifice to a real deity? Or is made either better...
Persons cannot continue to unite with the wicked in the service of Satan, and yet be the friends of God; and those who seek their chief enjoyment in sensual gratifications, are provoking the Lord to d...
DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? ARE WE STRONGER THAN HE?...
The Christian principles involved:...
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 o...
OR DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? ARE WE STRONGER THAN HE? 'provoke the Lord to jealousy?' -'Or will you continue eating at both meals, and thus arouse the Lord's jealousy, as Israel did in the...
15-22 Did not the joining in the Lord's supper show a profession of faith in Christ crucified, and of adoring gratitude to him for his salvation ? Christians, by this ordinance, and the faith therein...
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, o...
Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? [God does not permit a division of his worship (Matthew 6:24). Any attempt to do this is said to arouse his jealousy, that passion which...
1 Corinthians 10:22 provoke G2228 G3863 Lord G2962 jealousy G3863 (G5719) we G2070 (G5748) than G3361
'Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?' By not fleeing from idolatry they are provoking the Lord to jealously (the symmetry of the passage connects the two statements). He t...
1 Corinthians 10:22. WHAT? DO WE PROVOKE THE LORD TO JEALOUSY? ARE WE STRONGER THAN HE? The allusion is to Deuteronomy 32:21, and almost the words are from it. The word “jealousy,” as applied to God,...
_Attendance at Idolatrous Feasts, 1 Corinthians 10:14_ to 1 Corinthians 11:1 When the first love of the converts began to cool, and, as a natural consequence, they drew closer to their heathen acquain...
It was impossible for Christians in almost any Greek or Roman colony, and least of all at Corinth, to avoid coming frequently in contact with idolatrous practices in various and ensnaring forms. In wr...
PROVOKE TO JEALOUSY (παραζηλουμεν). The very word used in Deuteronomy 32:21 of the insolence of the old Israelites. Quoted in Romans 10:19. Such double-dealing now will do this very thing.STRONGER...
1 Corinthians 10:15. I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion...
CONTENTS: Israel in the wilderness, a warning example. Fellowship of the Lord's table demands separation. Law of love in relation to eating and drinking. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Moses. CONCLU...
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 respecting...
OR DO WE WANT TO MAKE THE LORD JEALOUS? As sensible men, they must see the _absurdity,_ as well as _the danger,_ in such double-dealing. Jehovah is a jealous God (Exodus 20:5). He will not share his w...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 10:22 See note on Ex. 20:5–6 for God’s JEALOUSY. ⇐...
_Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? I.e_., to anger. Do we set up a rival to the Lord? De we leave Him, our Bride-groom, and cling to a devil, and the things offered to him, or at all events wish to...
CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER From speaking of the contest, in which those who deny themselves and strive lawfully are rewarded, and in which the slothful and self-indulgent are condemned and pu...
_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 is e...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 _Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations._ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER; rather, _for. _He has just shown them, by his own ex
Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and passed through the sea (1 Corinthians 10:1); Now he is talking about their forefathers w...
Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21; Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 6:15;...
Do we provoke - to jealousy [η π α ρ α ζ η λ ο υ μ ε ν]. The A. V. does not translate h or, and thus breaks the connection with what precedes. You cannot be at the same time in communion with the Lord...
Observe here, 1. That the worship of God is that which he is very tender and jealous of: never was husband so jealous of the chastity of his suspected wife, as God is jealous in point of worship; idol...