1 Corinthians 10:11 - Exposition

For ensamples; literally, by way of figure; typically. The rabbis said, "Whatever happened to the fathers is a sign to their children." The thought is the same as in Romans 15:4 , "Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning." The example in this instance would come home more forcibly from the sickness and mortality then prevalent among the Corinthian Christians ( 1 Corinthians 11:30 ). The ends of the world; rather, of the egos. The expression is in accordance with the view which regarded the then epoch as "the close or consummation of the ages" ( Matthew 13:39 ; 1 Peter 4:7 , "The end of all things is at hand;" 1 John 2:18 , "It is the last time;" Hebrews 9:26 ; Matthew 13:39 ).