1 Corinthians 10:18-11:30 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:15-22

In this passage the apostle urges the general caution against idolatry, in the particular case of eating the heathen sacrifices as such, and out of any religious respect to the idol to whom they were sacrificed. I. He prefaces his argument with an appeal to their own reason and judgment: ?I speak to wise men, judge you what I say, 1 Cor. 10:15. You are great pretenders to wisdom, to close reasoning and argument; I can leave it with your own reason and conscience whether I do not argue justly.?... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

10:14-22 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 blessing, a very sharing in the blood of Jesus Christ? Is not the bread which we break a very sharing in the body of Christ? Just as the broken bread is one, so we, though we are many, are one body. For we all share in the one bread. Look at the nation of Israel in the racial sense. Do not... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:18

Behold Israel after the flesh ,.... So the apostle calls them, to distinguish them from the Israel of God, the spiritual Israel, whether Jews or Gentiles; who are born again, believe in the true Messiah, worship God in a spiritual manner, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in fleshly things; but these were the descendants of Jacob or Israel by carnal generation, were carnal men, in the flesh, in a state of unregeneracy, and were employed in a carnal worship, in the observance of... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:18

Behold Israel after the flesh - The Jews not yet converted to Christianity: the latter being Israel after the Spirit. As the design of the apostle was to withdraw his converts at Corinth from all temptations to idolatry, he produces two examples to show the propriety of his endeavors. All who join together in celebrating the Lord's Supper, and are partakers of that one bread, give proof by this that they are Christians, and have fellowship with Christ. 2. All the Israelites who offer... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:18

Verse 18 18.Behold Israel after the flesh He establishes it by another example, that such is the nature of all sacred observances, that they bind us in a kind of fellowship with God. For the law of Moses admits no one to a feast upon a sacrifice, but the man who has duly prepared himself. I speak not of priests merely, but of those among the common people who eat of the remains of the sacrifice. Hence it follows, that all who eat of the flesh of the sacrificed victim, are partakers with the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Wariness in Christian walk. A burning question amongst Corinthian Christians was whether they were justified in partaking of sacrifices offered to idols. With this the apostle deals in several parts of these Epistles. Note the course of his argument here. I. HE LIFTS THE VEIL FROM IDOLATRY . He is quite willing to allow that an idol is nothing in itself, and that meats offered to an idol are in themselves as though they had not been so offered. But he thrusts upon the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:14-33

Argument further enforced; fellowship with Christ by means of the communion; idolatrous feasts a communion with demons; law, expediency, conscience. "Wherefore," says St. Paul, as a deduction from the foregoing argument, "my dearly beloved," his heart kindled anew towards his brethren, "flee from idolatry." This dread of idolatry is the key to what follows. Idolatry, in those days, was a sin that included all sins, and Corinth was behind no city in the charm and splendour it threw around... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:15-22

The inherent disgracefulness of any tampering with idolatry. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:16-22

The Christian feast. "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ?" etc. The text undoubtedly refers to the feast which Christ instituted the night on which he was betrayed, and the words lead us to look at that feast in two aspects. I. AS A MEDIUM FOR SPIRITUAL COMMUNION . "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?" The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:18

Partakers of the altar. It is better to render it "Have they not communion with the altar? " for the word is different from that in the last verse. The meaning is that, by sharing in the sacrifices, the Jews stood in direct association with the altar, the victims, and all that they symbolized ( Deuteronomy 12:27 ). And St. Paul implied that the same thing is true of those who sympathetically partook of idol offerings. read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:15-22

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:18

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:18

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:14-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:14-33

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:15-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:16-22

The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:18

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