Neither let us commit fornication— This was common at the many idolatrous feasts among the heathen; and it was the more proper for the Apostle to caution these Christians against it, as it was proverbially called "the Corinthian practice." See the Introduction to and Inferences on ch. 1.
Verse 1 Corinthians 10:8. _FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND._] In Numbers 25:9, the number Isaiah 24; and, allowing this to be the genuine reading, (and none of the Hebrew MSS. exhibit any v...
NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION ... - The case referred to here was that of the licentious contact with the daughters of Moab, referred to in Numbers 25:1. AND FELL IN ONE DAY - Were slain for thei...
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...
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...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND. See Numbers 25:1 where the number is given as 24,000, but this included the princes of the people of verse 4. See note there.. _Conversion note_: verse. of what book and cha...
_Neither let us commit fornication_ i.e. the natural result of joining in the impure worship of Ashtaroth, or Astarte, the Syrian Venus. The temple of Aphrodite, on the Acro-Corinthus, contained a tho...
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...
ΠΟΡΝΕΎΩΜΕΝ, i.e. the natural result of joining in the impure worship of Ashtaroth, or Astarte, the Syrian Venus. The temple of Aphrodite, on the AcroCorinthus, contained a thousand priestesses devoted...
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...
_CAUTIONS AGAINST SINFUL PRACTICES 1 CORINTHIANS 10:6-14:_ The purpose of the sad portrait was so that we might have an example of what caused people to be disqualified. Some were disqualified because...
ΠΟΡΝΕΎΩΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΠΟΡΝΕΎΩ (G487) вступать в незаконные сексуальные отношения, блудить. Побудительный _conj._ ("давайте не будем"), ΈΠΌΡΝΕΥΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΡΝΕΎΩ (G4203). ΈΠΕ...
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 2 Immorality (1 Corinthians 10:6-13) 6 Now these things are warnings for us, not to desire evil as they did. 7Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, Th...
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. FORNICATION. Numbers 25:1 assigns idolatry of Baal-peor as the cause; but fornication wa...
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...
SOME OF THEM COMMITTED] Numbers 25. Fornication was a temptation to the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 6). It was closely associated with idolatry; at Corinth there were a great number of women attached t...
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...
AND FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND. — In Numbers 25:9 the statement is that twenty-four thousand perished. Various and ingenious attempts have been made to reconcile these two accounts of t...
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...
μηδὲ πορνεύωμεν : here P. comes closer to his readers, adopting the communicative 1st pl [1438] For the prevalence of this vice at Cor [1439] and its connexion with Cor [1440] idolatry, see 1 Corinthi...
§ 32. THE MORAL CONTAGION OF IDOLATRY. The fall of the Israel of the Exodus was due to the very temptations now surrounding the Cor [1423] Church to the allurements of idolatry and its attendant impur...
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...
“Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell i...
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...
From these facts the apostle derives this lesson: The greatest blessings may issue in the greatest judgments....
(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...
8._Neither let us commit fornication _Now he speaks of _fornication_, in respect of which, as appears from historical accounts, great licentiousness prevailed among the Corinthians, and we may readily...
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...
NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION,.... To which the Corinthians were much addicted: hence the apostle elsewhere, in this epistle, makes use of arguments, to dissuade from it, as he does here, they jud...
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Ver. 8. _And fell in one day_] The apostle, instead of the cloak of heat of youth, puts up...
_Neither be ye idolaters_ By partaking of their idolatrous feasts: by no means join the heathen in these, because if the persons whose friendship you wish to cultivate, tempt you to commit idolatry, n...
IT IS WRITTEN; EXODUS 32:6; NUMBERS 25:1-9; EXODUS 17:2; Exodus 17:7;...
Warning against the corruption of idolatry and related sins:...
NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION, AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND....
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...
NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION, AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND. 'fornication' -a regular part of worship to idols. And. very real temptation for the Cori...
6-14 Carnal desires gain strength by indulgence, therefore should be checked in their first rise. Let us fear the sins of Israel, if we would shun their plagues. And it is but just to fear, that such...
The story to which this verse relates is that, NUMBERS 25:1. When Balaam could not curse the Israelites, he advised the debauching of them by the Moabitish women, first enticing them to fornication an...
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. [Numbers 25:1-9. While Paul gives the number as twenty-three thousand, Moses gives it as tw...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Remember the four and twenty thousand that were rejected for fornication.[213] Tertullian On Modesty And of course it is a sufficient one, that so vast...
1 Corinthians 10:8 Nor G3366 immorality G4203 (G5725) as G2531 some G5100 them G846 did G4203 (G5656) and
'Nor let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.' Here the sin of sexual immorality is more clearly spelled out. If the reference is to Numbers...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:8. NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION, AS SOME OF THEM COMMITTED, AND FELL IN ONE DAY THREE AND TWENTY THOUSAND. Four and twenty thousand, says NUMBERS 25:9; but as the actual number w...
NEITHER LET US COMMIT FORNICATION (μηδε πορνευωμεν). More exactly, And let us cease practicing fornication as some were already doing (1 Corinthians 6:11; 1 Corinthians 7:2). The connection between...
FELL IN ONE DAY Compare (Numbers 25:9). A discrepancy has been imagined. (1 Corinthians 10:8). Gives the number of deaths in "one day"; (Numbers 25:9); the total number of deaths "in the plague." So...
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...
WE MUST NOT COMMIT SEXUAL IMMORALITY. _Immorality_ is a sex act involving someone other than the lawful spouse. It includes acts between woman and woman; between man and man; and between a man and a w...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 10:8 SEXUAL IMMORALITY. See Numbers 25:1. TWENTY-THREE THOUSAND....
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...
_As some of them committed._ When they worshipped Baal-peor. _i.e._, Priapus, and in his honour committed fornication with the daughters of Moab (Numbers 25.). _And fell in one day three and twenty th...
_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 6:18; 1 Corinthians 6:9; Numbers 25:1; Psalms 106:29;...
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,...
And fell in one day three and twenty thousand — Beside the princes who were afterwards hanged, and those whom the judges slew so that there died in all four and twenty thousand. Numbers 25:1, Numbers...
Does Paul make a mistake in quoting how many people died? PROBLEM: Paul says in this verse that 23,000 people died. In Exodus 32:28, the number of people listed as having died Isaiah 3. This would se...