Consider the Hebrew people. Part of each sacrifice was eaten by those who served in the temple, and part burnt on the altar to God. By doing this they shared with God, in the sacrifice. The false teacher (who was also a Jew) had advised the Corinthian Christians to eat the idol sacrifices (in the idol's temple). Those who did this were sharing in the idol's sacrifice.
Verse 18. _BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH_] The Jews not yet _converted_ to Christianity: the latter being _Israel after the_ _Spirit_. As the design of the apostle was to withdraw his converts at Cori...
BEHOLD ISRAEL - Look at the Jews. The design here is to illustrate the sentiment which he was establishing, by a reference to the fact that among the Jews those who partook of the same sacrifices were...
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...
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...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
BEHOLD. See. Greek. _blepo_, as in 1 Corinthians 10:12. AFTER. according to. App-104. PARTAKERS. Greek. _koinonos._ Elsewhere, 1 Corinthians 10:20; Matthew 23:30;...
_Behold Israel after the flesh_ Second reason (see 1 Corinthians 10:16). As the Christian sacrificial feasts, so are those of the Jews. _are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar...
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...
THE DANGER OF EATING MEATS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS SHEWN FROM THE EXAMPLE OF SACRIFICIAL FEASTS IN GENERAL...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ ΤῸΝ ἸΣΡΑΉΛ. Second reason (see 1 Corinthians 10:16). As the Christian sacrificial feasts, so are those of the Jews. ΚΑΤᾺ ΣΆΡΚΑ. As distinguished from Christians, who are Israel κατὰ πνεῦμα. Se...
_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...
ΚΑΤΆ ΣΆΡΚΑ (G2596; G4561) по плоти; ссылка на исторический Израиль (Conzeltann). ΟΎΧ (G3756) вводит вопрос, на который ожидается утвердительный ответ, ΈΣΘΊΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ (G2068)...
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...
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH - the literal, as distinguished from the spiritual Israel (; ; ). Partakers...
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...
ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH] the natural Israel. We Christians are the true Israel, who do God's will (Galatians 6:16). PARTAKERS OF (RV 'have communion with') THE ALTAR] i.e. with God, whose share was off...
_(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...
BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH — _i.e.,_ Israel in its merely human aspect, not the spiritual Israel (Romans 2:28; Galatians 4:29; Galatians 6:16). The sacrifice was divided — a portion offered upon th...
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...
“For look at Israel after the flesh: are not those that eat the sacrifice communicants of the altar?” _i.e._, participation in the sacrificial feast constitutes fellowship in the sacrifice. τὸν Ἰσραὴλ...
§ 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...
The Lord's Supper and Idolatry When any Christian partakes of the Lord's Supper, he partakes of the blessings of fellowship with Christ and his brethren. Both baptism and the Lord's Supper recall Chri...
Behold Israel after the (p) flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices (q) partakers of the altar? (p) That is, those who yet observe their ceremonies. (q) Are consenting and guilty, both of th...
Behold Israel, according to the flesh. That is, the people that were the offspring of Israel or Jacob. Are not these they who offered sacrifices to the true God, and eat or the sacrifices, which were...
“Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices in communion with the altar?” Israel is placed here by way of transition from the Church to the heathen. There were also among...
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...
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...
(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...
18._Behold Israel after the flesh _He establishes it by another example, that such is the nature of all sacred observances, that they bind us in a kind of fellowship with God. For the law of Moses adm...
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...
BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH,.... So the apostle calls them, to distinguish them from the Israel of God, the spiritual Israel, whether Jews or Gentiles; who are born again, believe in the true Messia...
Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? Ver. 18. _Are not they which eat, &c._] See Leviticus 7:15; hence he infers that these Corinthians also...
_Behold_ Consider, by way of illustration; _Israel after the flesh_ How it is with the present Jews, the natural descendants of Jacob, who worship God by sacrifices, according to the Mosaic law. He sa...
PARTAKERS OF THE ALTAR; connected in a special sense with the altar, and thus with Jehovah, to whom the altar is devoted. So, should they feast in heathen temples, they would be considered as worshipp...
BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH; ARE NOT THEY WHICH EAT OF THE SACRIFICES PARTAKERS OF THE ALTAR?...
The application of these truths to idolatrous practices:...
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...
BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH: HAVE NOT THEY THAT EAT THE SACRIFICES COMMUNION WITH THE ALTAR? 'Behold' -'Look at' (NASV) 'ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH' -'the nation of Israel' (NASV) Which implies that a...
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...
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. A...
Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar? [In Paul's eyes the church was the true Israel, and the Jews were Israel after the flesh. Part of the Jew...
1 Corinthians 10:18 Observe G991 (G5720) Israel G2474 after G2596 flesh G4561 Are G1526 not G3780 those G1
'Behold Israel after the flesh, do not those who eat the sacrifices have communion with the altar?' His second example is the oneness with the altar, and all that it meant, of those in physical Israel...
1 Corinthians 10:18. BEHOLD ISRAEL AFTER THE FLESH: HAVE NOT THEY WHICH EAT THE SACRIFICES COMMUNION WITH THE ALTAR? Part of the animal was consumed on the altar, and the rest was divided between the...
_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...
AFTER THE FLESH (κατα σαρκα). The literal Israel, the Jewish people, not the spiritual Israel (Ισραηλ κατα πνευμα) composed of both Jews and Gentiles, the true children of faith (Romans 2:28; Romans...
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...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 10:18 PARTICIPANTS. See note on v. 16. The altar in the OT was a table on which food was sacrificed to God. Priests ate from the offerings (see...
_Behold Israel after the flesh... partakers of the alter?_ That is, of the victim offered on the altar, by metonymy. All this is meant to prove that things sacrificed to idols ought not to be partaken...
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...
1 Corinthians 9:13; 1 Samuel 2:13; 1 Samuel 9:12; 1 Samuel 9:13;...
Showing that partaking of the idol - feasts is idolatry, by the analogy of the Israelite who, by partaking of the sacrifices puts himself in communion with Jehovah's altar. Partakers of the altar [κ ο...
Consider Israel after the flesh — Christians are the spiritual "Israel of God." Are not they who eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar — Is not this an act of communion with that God to whom th...
Here another argument against eating things offered to idols is produced by our apostle, and it runs thus: "As in the Jewish church all persons that did eat of the peace-offerings which were laid upon...