The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:3-4
The spiritual meat and drink. Give account of the historical facts to which the apostle refers. It seems as if he had in mind also the Jewish tradition that the rock— i.e. a fragment broken off from the rock smitten by Moses—followed the Israelites through their journey. St. Paul sees, in that symbol of the Divine presence and providing, an aid towards our realizing the gracious abiding presence of the Lord Jesus Christ with his Church. His point here is that God's people, in the olden... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:3-4
Meat and drink for God's people. By a few master strokes of his pen St. Paul indicated the typical significance of Israel's life in the wilderness. His object in these allusions to the Old Testament was to correct party spirit among the Greek Christians of the first century, by showing that, like the tribes of Israel in the old time, the people of Christ are one in respect of their redemption and consolation in him. As all the Hebrew fathers were delivered from slavery in Egypt, so all the... read more