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John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

(b) Food offered to Idols(iii) Historical Illustrations and Practical AdviceSt. Paul has been speaking of the need of earnestness and self-discipline, and the danger of failure; he now holds out the fate of the Israelites as a warning against self-confidence. The Corinthians were tempted to the very same sins for which Israel suffered.All of the Israelites received great blessings from God, types of the sacramental privileges Christians enjoy, yet most of them perished in the wilderness because... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Corinthians 10:21-22

(21, 22) Ye cannot . . .—Here follows the special reason why the Apostle desires them not to partake of the wine poured forth in libation to devils, or the table on which meat sacrificed to these devils was spread out as food. Such would deprive them of their participation in the cup of the Lord and the table on which the Lord’s Supper was placed. Of course the impossibility was moral, not physical. So the Apostle adds the warning question, Do you in fact do so? Do you do that which is morally... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

1 Corinthians 10:2 'They were all baptised in the cloud and in the sea'; this is the register of all Christ's chosen ones.... It needs but a little consideration to perceive that devotion, self-sacrifice, all the higher moods and energies, even of natural feeling, are only possible to seasons of adversity. Dora Greenwell, in The Patience of Hope, p. 19 f. Biblical Rocks 1 Corinthians 10:4 The people who are referred to in this argument of the Apostle's in the tenth chapter of First... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

Chapter 15FALLACIOUS PRESUMPTIONSIN 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 partly to encourage the Christians of Corinth to consider their weak and prejudiced brethren, partly for other reasons, he reminds them how he himself abridged his liberty and departed from his just claims in order that the Gospel he preached might find readier acceptance. Besides, not only for the sake... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

7. Warnings and Exhortations CHAPTER 10 1. Warnings from Israel’s past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4-7 ). 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15-33 ). The same subject is continued with this chapter. The concluding paragraph of the previous chapter is illustrated from Israel’s history, as the professing people of God. What happened unto them has a typical meaning for us. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples (types), and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:21

10:21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the {s} cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.(s) The heathen and profane people were accustomed to finish up and make an end of their feasts which they kept to the honour of their gods, in offering meat offerings and drink offerings to them, with banquets and feastings. read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

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 of Christian will be subjected to a similar test. And the early history of Israel is appealed to as an example of this. All the children of Israel had the benefit of the protecting cloud in leaving Egypt. All of them passed through the Red Sea, "and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:1-33

CHRISTIAN LIBERTY AND ITS ABUSE The Christian church was composed largely of Gentiles, who, when they were pagans, worshipped idols, with animal sacrifices and feasts in the idols’ temples. Having become Christians, their practices were discontinued, though pagan neighbors might occasionally invite them, in a social way, to join in such feasts. The question had arisen as to their Christian liberty to accept such invitations. A “liberal” party in the church not only favored it, but indeed... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:16-22

(16) 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 of the body of Christ? (17) For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. (18) Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? (19) What say I then? that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything? (20) But I say, that the things... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:21

In all this discourse, a comparison is instituted between the Christian host and oblation, its effects, conditions and properties, with the altars, hosts, sacrifices and immolations of the Jews and Gentiles; which the apostle could not have done, had there not been a proper sacrifice in the Christian worship. The holy Fathers teach the same with the ancient Councils. This in the council of Nice: The lamb of God laid upon the altar. Conc. Ephes., The unbloody service of the sacrifice. In St.... read more

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