1 Corinthians 10:7 - Exposition
As were some of them. As in the case of the golden calf, the worship of Moloch, Remphan, Baal-peor, etc. In the prominent instance of the calf worship, they (like the Corinthians) would have put forth sophistical pleas in their own favour, saying that they were not worshipping idols, but only paying honour to cherubic emblems of Jehovah. To play. The word is, perhaps, used euphemistically for the worst concomitants of a sensual nature worship ( Exodus 32:3-6 ), which resembled the depraved and orgiastic worship of Aphrodite Pandemos at Corinth.
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