Wesley's Explanatory Notes
1 Corinthians 10:5
Yet — Although they had so many tokens of the divine presence. They were overthrown — With the most terrible marks of his displeasure.
Yet — Although they had so many tokens of the divine presence. They were overthrown — With the most terrible marks of his displeasure.
Verse 1 Corinthians 10:5. _THEY WERE OVERTHROWN IN THE WILDERNESS._] And yet ALL these persons _were under the cloud_ - ALL _passed through the sea_ - ALL _were baptized into Moses in the cloud and i...
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM ... - That is, with their conduct. They rebelled and sinned, and were destroyed. The design of the apostle here is, to remind them that although they enjoyed so many privileges,...
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...
From this exposition of his own willingness to waive his rights for the sake of others, closing with the solemn warning that the goal might be missed after all, Paul returns to his main theme, the mea...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
Brothers, I do not want you to forget that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all of them passed through the midst of the sea, and all of them were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the s...
MANY. the most. GOD. App-98. WELL PLEASED. Greek. _eudokeo._ See 1 Corinthians 1:21. OVERTHROWN. Greek. _katastrannumi._ Only here in NT. But the word occurs twice in Septuagint, Numbers 14:16 (wher...
_with many of them_ Rather, MOST. The point aimed at is, that in spite of their high privileges and great opportunities, the majority of them were destroyed. Cf. Hebrews 3:17. Joshua and Caleb only, N...
1 Corinthians 10:1-14. The Example of Israel a Warning to Christians In this chapter the direct argument concerning meats offered to idols is resumed in 1 Corinthians 10:14. The first fourteen verses...
ἘΝ ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΠΛΕΊΟΣΙΝ. The point aimed at is, that in spite of their high privileges and great opportunities, the majority of them was destroyed. Cf. Hebrews 3:16. Joshua and Caleb only, Numbers 14:38, we...
1 Corinthians 10:1-14. THE EXAMPLE OF ISRAEL A WARNING TO CHRISTIANS. In this chapter the direct argument concerning meats offered to idols is resumed in 1 Corinthians 10:14. The first fourteen verses...
_THE TERRIBLE FAILURE OF THE ISRAELITES 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1-5:_ God painted a sad portrait of the failures of Israel in the words, "But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthr...
ΠΛΕΊΟΣΙΝ _dat. pl. от_ ΠΛΕΊΩΝ (пот. _masc. sing._) многий; _сотр. от_ ΠΟΛΎΣ (G4183) (BAGD). В значении _subst._, большинство, ΕΎΔΌΚΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΎΔΟΚΈΩ (G2106) быть довольным. С предлогом...
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM— _But with the greater part of them._...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _Text_ 1 Corinthians 10:1-13. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 2 and were all baptized unt...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Illustration (1 Corinthians 10:1-5) 10 I want you to know, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea. 2and all were baptized int...
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. BUT - though they had so many spiritual privileges. MANY OF THEM - rather, 'the majority of them.' All...
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...
_(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...
MANY] RV 'most.' All shared these same blessings, yet most, all, in fact, except Caleb and Joshua, perished in the wilderness. So our sacramental privileges will not save us if we live a careless life...
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...
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM. — Better, _Nevertheless not with the greater part of them was God pleased._ This introduces the point from which the Apostle seeks to draw the great lesson of self-distrust. _Al...
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...
“But not with the greater part (of them)” a “tragic _litotes_ : only Joshua and Caleb reached the Promised Land” (Numbers 14:30 : Mr [1419]). The result negatives what one expects from the antecedents...
§ 31. THE BACKSLIDING OF ANCIENT ISRAEL. The Apostle has just confessed, in warning others, his own fear of reprobation. That this is no idle fear the history of the O.T. Church plainly proves. All th...
LEARN FROM BIBLE HISTORY 1 Corinthians 10:1 Twice over we are told that the story of the Exodus was intended for our instruction, 1 Corinthians 10:6; 1 Corinthians 10:11. It becomes
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...
Lost Though Rewarded As Paul continues his discussion of their fall in the wilderness, he emphasizes self-control as he did in 9:27. Five times in the preceding verses he emphasized the participation...
_ God was not well pleased, &c. Of 600,000, only Josue and Caleb entered the land of promise; the rest were destroyed, and perished in the wilderness. Their punishment ought to be an admonition to all...
2. THE EXAMPLE OF THE ISRAELITES. 10:1-11. This passage is the continuation of the foregoing. What the apostle has just indicated as a possibility for himself, he now points out as a reality in the hi...
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...
“But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.” ᾿Αλλά : notwithstanding so great favours. _They were overthrown_..., an allusion to Numbers 14:29: “Your c...
(1) 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; (2) And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in...
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...
_PRIVILEGE AND RESPONSIBILITY_ ‘I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; … But with many of them God was not well pleased...
5._But many of them. _We have now the reason why the Apostle has premised these things — that we might not claim for ourselves any dignity or excellence above them, but might walk in humility and fear...
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...
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED,.... As he is with none but those that are in Christ; and with none of the services of men, but what are done in faith, which become acceptable to him th...
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Ver. 5. _They were overthrown_] They died with the sacramental meat in their mouths. Our privileges excuse...
_But with many of them_ Although they had so many tokens of the divine presence with them, and enjoyed such singular favours; _God was not well pleased_ So far from it, that he swore in his wrath they...
MANY OF THEM; who belonged to God's visible people, and enjoyed all their outward privileges. Thus the apostle warns the Corinthians not to think themselves safe from danger because they belong outwar...
BUT WITH MANY OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED; FOR THEY WERE OVERTHROWN IN THE WILDERNESS. In this passage the apostle offers a few pages from the history of ancient Israel as a warning example for t...
A WARNING AGAINST CARNAL SECURITY. The backsliding of Israel:...
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...
HOWBEIT WITH MOST OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED: FOR THEY WERE OVERTHROWN IN THE WILDERNESS. 'Howbeit' -'Nevertheless' (NASV) 'However, in spite of their unique position and mercies the Israelite...
1-5 To dissuade the Corinthians from communion with idolaters, and security in any sinful course, the apostle sets before them the example of the Jewish nation of old. They were, by a miracle, led th...
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 14:28,2...
Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown [literally, strewn in heaps] _in the wilderness_. [In 1 Corinthians 10:24 of the preceding chapter Paul enforces the lesson...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV He thus clearly shows that the very same King who gathered from all quarters the faithful to the marriage of His Son, and who grants them the incorruptible banquet,...
1 Corinthians 10:5 But G235 with G1722 most G4119 them G846 God G2316 was G2106 not G3756 pleased G2106 ...
'Howbeit with most of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.' The spiritual benefits of the Israelites proved to be of no efficacy to them when it came to the sins...
1 Corinthians 10:5. HOWBEIT WITH MOST OF THEM GOD WAS NOT WELL PLEASED in point of fact, with all that came out of Egypt by Moses, save Caleb and Joshua, because they “had another spirit with them, an...
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...
The substance of this closing portion of the digression may be thus expressed: ‘I have told you of the disastrous issue too sure to follow on a fearless, self-confident assertion of your Christian lib...
WITH MOST OF THEM (εν τοις πλειοσιν αυτων). "A mournful understatement," for only two (Caleb and Joshua) actually reached the Promised Land (Numbers 14:30-32). All the rest were rejected or αδοκιμο...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _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 the...
1 Corinthians 10:1. _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 the...
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...
BUT EVEN THEN. "All" were baptized, "all" ate, "all" drank. But in spite of the blessing from God, most of them did not please God, as Paul goes on to show us in 1 Corinthians 10:7-10....
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 10:5 OVERTHROWN. They did not see the Promised Land. (See Numbers 14:22.)...
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...
_For they were overthrown in the wilderness._ All the Hebrews who left Egypt with Moses died for their sins in the wilderness, except Joshua and Caleb, who, with a new generation, entered the Promised...
_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 1:34; Deuteronomy 1:35; Deuteronomy 2:15; Deuteronomy 2:16;...
Many [τ ο ι ς π λ ε ι ο σ ι ν]. The A. V. misses the force of the article, the many. Hence Rev., correctly, most of them. All perished save Caleb and Joshua. Overthrown [κ α τ ε σ τ ρ ω θ η σ α ν]. On...
TYPES AND ANALOGIES 1 Corinthians 10:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS By the way of introduction to this study upon "types and analogies," we wish to suggest several things, based upon the following statement,...
Although the Israelites were made partakers of the before-mentioned privileges and spiritual favours; though they were baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and did eat sacramental meat, an...