1Cor 10:1 | JFB | STEP | 1. Moreover —The oldest manuscripts read "for." Thus the connection with the foregoing chapter is expressed. Ye need to exercise self-denying watchfulness notwithstanding all your privileges, lest ye be castaways. For the Israelites with all their privileges were most of them castaways through want of it. ignorant —with all your boasted "knowledge." our fathers —The Jewish Church stands in the relation of parent to the Christian Church. all —Arrange as the Greek, "Our fathers were all under the cloud "; giving the "all" its proper emphasis. Not so much as one of so great a multitude was detained by force or disease ( ) [BENGEL ]. Five times the "all" is repeated, in the enumeration of the five favors which God bestowed on Israel ( ). Five times, correspondingly, they sinned ( ). In contrast to the "all" stands "many (rather, 'the most') of them" ( ). All of them had great privileges, yet most of them were castaways through lust. Beware you, having greater privileges, of sharing the same doom through a similar sin. Continuing the reasoning ( ), "They which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize." under the cloud —were continually under the defense of the pillar of cloud, the symbol of the divine presence ( ; compare ). passed through the sea —by God's miraculous interposition for them ( ).

1 Corinthians 10:1

1. Moreover—The oldest manuscripts read "for." Thus the connection with the foregoing chapter is expressed. Ye need to exercise self-denying watchfulness notwithstanding all your privileges, lest ye be castaways. For the Israelites with all their privileges were most of them castaways through want of it.

ignorant—with all your boasted "knowledge."

our fathers—The Jewish Church stands in the relation of parent to the Christian Church.

all—Arrange as the Greek, "Our fathers were all under the cloud"; giving the "all" its proper emphasis. Not so much as one of so great a multitude was detained by force or disease (Ps 105:37) [BENGEL]. Five times the "all" is repeated, in the enumeration of the five favors which God bestowed on Israel (1Co 10:1-4). Five times, correspondingly, they sinned (1Co 10:6-10). In contrast to the "all" stands "many (rather, 'the most') of them" (1Co 10:5). All of them had great privileges, yet most of them were castaways through lust. Beware you, having greater privileges, of sharing the same doom through a similar sin. Continuing the reasoning (1Co 9:24), "They which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize."

under the cloud—were continually under the defense of the pillar of cloud, the symbol of the divine presence (Ex 13:21, 22; Ps 105:39; compare Isa 4:5).

passed through the sea—by God's miraculous interposition for them (Ex 14:29).