Verse 1 Corinthians 10:15. I speak as to wise men] The Corinthians valued themselves not a little on their wisdom and various gifts; the apostle admits this, and draws an argument from it against themselves. As ye are so wise, surely ye can see the propriety of abominating idolatry of every kind: for an idol is nothing in the world, and can do nothing for you and nothing against you.
I SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN ... - I speak to people qualified to understand the subject; and present reasons which will commend themselves to you. The reasons referred to are those which occupy the remaind...
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...
THE PERIL OF OVER-CONFIDENCE (1 Corinthians 10:1-13)...
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...
JUDGE. App-122. This appeal is an instance of the Figure of speech _Anacoenosis._ App-6....
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...
ὩΣ ΦΡΟΝΊΜΟΙΣ ΛΈΓΩ. I SPEAK TO YOU AS TO SENSIBLE MEN, or as Meyer, _to you, as sensible men, I say, Judge ye what I affirm_. Even in the plenitude of his Apostolic authority, he does not forbid the Co...
THE DANGER OF EATING MEATS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS SHEWN FROM THE EXAMPLE OF SACRIFICIAL FEASTS IN GENERAL...
_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...
ΦΡΌΝΙΜΟΣ (G5429) мудрый, понимающий, внимательный, способность принять решение, понимание, связанное с прозорливостью и мудростью (TDNT; LN, 1:384). Indir. _obj._ ΚΡΊΝΑΤΕ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΚΡΊΝΩ...
DISCOURSE: 1973 APPEAL TO MEN OF WISDOM AND CANDOUR [Note: This, and the three following Discourses, 1974, 1975, and 1976, were preached before the University of Cambridge, and the Discourse on Psalms...
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...
I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. Appeal to their own judgment to weigh the argument-namely, That as partaking of the Lord's supper involves a partaking of the Lord himself, and partakin...
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...
AS TO WISE MEN] such as the Corinthians prided themselves on being: cp, 1 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Corinthians 4:8; 1 Corinthians 8:10. They could judge how incongruous it was, after having by the Eucharis...
_(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...
I SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN. — These words are not hypothetical; they imply the point of view from which the Apostle is now regarding his readers — viz., competent to recognise the force of his argument. H...
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...
Ὡς φρονίμοις λέγω · κρίνατε ὑμεῖς ὅ φημι : “As to men of sense I speak; be yourselves the judges of what I affirm.” With this prefatory appeal to the intelligence of the readers _cf._ the introductory...
§ 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...
Flee From Idolatry Idolatry is dangerous. As surely as one would flee from a snake coiled at his feet, he should flee from idolatry. Perhaps to make the lesson more palatable, and certainly because he...
(5) I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. (5) Now returning to those idol's feasts, that he may not seem to delay at all: first he promises that he will use no other reasons, than such as they...
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...
“Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee far from idolatry. 15. I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.” The address so full of tenderness: _my dearly beloved_, expresses how much it costs him to be...
(13) There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to...
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...
_WORDS TO THE WISE_ ‘I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.’ 1 Corinthians 10:15 We are met together not to exalt ourselves, but for the great and definite purpose of trying to build one anot...
15._I speak as to wise men. _As he was about to take his argument from the mystery of the Supper, he arouses them by this little preface, that they may consider more attentively the magnitude of the t...
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...
I SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN,.... That is, what he was now going to say concerning the Lord's supper, and the communion which believers have with Christ in it, which they as Christians must have knowledge o...
I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. Ver. 15. _I speak as to wise men_] _i.e._ Well skilled in the doctrine of the sacraments, from one of which I am about to argue. Piscator, after he had re...
_Wherefore, my dearly beloved_, &c. To understand what follows, it seems necessary to suppose that the Corinthians, in their letter, put three questions to the apostle concerning meats sacrificed to i...
WISE MEN; capable of judging correctly....
CONDUCT TOWARD THE WEAK. A reference to the Lord's Supper:...
I SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN; JUDGE YE WHAT I SAY....
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...
1 CORINTHIANS 10:15. SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN; JUDGE YE WHAT. SAY. 'as to wise men' -'Paul never asks mere blind obedience; he always labors to secure obedience as. result of thorough conviction.' (Lens...
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...
As to the present case, you are persons that understand the principles of Christian religion, I will make you judges in this case....
I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. [As idolatry had proved the mother of sins in Israel, so had it also in Corinth. Paul, therefore, in exhorting his readers to flee from it, appeals to thei...
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'I speak as to wise men. You judge what I say.' He pleads now that they will think about the question. They put themselves forward as wise men, so let them use their intelligence and consider what is...
1 Corinthians 10:15. I SPEAK AS TO WISE MEN; JUDGE YE WHAT I SAY: ‘Apostolic authority I have no need to urge; to your own judgment as wise men I appeal.'...
_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...
AS TO WISE MEN (ως φρονιμοις). No sarcasm as in 2 Corinthians 11:19, but plea that they make proper use of the mind (φρεν) given them....
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...
I SPEAK TO YOU AS SENSIBLE PEOPLE. "I want to show you that eating the sacrifice in the idol's temple is real worshiping of the idol....
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 11:13; 1 Corinthians 14:20; 1 Corinthians 4:10; 1 Corinthians 6:5;...
Wise [φ ρ ο ν ι μ ο ι ς]. See on wisdom, Luke 1:17; wisely, Luke 16:8. The warning against the sacrificial feasts and the allusion in ver. 3 suggest the eucharistic feast. An act of worship is sacrame...