1 Corinthians 10:7

Idolaters. Referring to the danger of partaking of the idol feasts. To play [π α ι ζ ε ι ν]. The merrymaking generally which followed the feast, not specially referring to the dancing at the worship of the golden calf. See Exodus 32:19.

Commit fornication. Lasciviousness was habitually associated with idol - worship. The two are combined, Acts 14:29. A thousand priests ministered at the licentious rites of the temple of Venus at Corinth. 109 Three and twenty thousand. A plain discrepancy between this statement and Numbers 25:9, where the number is twenty - four thousand. It may have been a lapse of memory.