1 Corinthians 10:1. For I would not, brethren, have you ignorant, how that our fathers. Though writing to a Church mainly Gentile, he calls the ancient Israel “our fathers,” not so much because some of them had been proselytes to the Jewish faith before their conversion, but because as he says to the Galatian converts (Galatians 3:29), who were also mainly Gentile “If ye are Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise;” and to the Ephesians (Ephesians 2:19), “So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”

were all under the cloud that “cloud” of glory which hovered over and went before them (Numbers 10:34; Numbers 14:14; Psalms 105:39). and all passed through the sea.

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