1 Corinthians 10:6-13

6-13. Thus far the apostle has typically endowed the Old Church with the sacraments, from Christ, of the New; he will now warn the New to beware of the typical sins, apostasies, and deaths, of the Old. Here note, 1. The sins specified by Paul are, first, that general lust from which proceed 1) idolatry, 2) fornication, 3) presumption, 4) murmurs. 2. This enumeration of sins is rightly interpreted as those peculiarly besetting the Church at Corinth. 3. They are to be interpreted as sins through which apostasy and destruction were likely to result. Hence Paul warns them (1 Corinthians 10:12) against a fall, yet assures them (1 Corinthians 10:13) that God ever makes apostasy unnecessitated. 4. For all their sins, falls, and deaths, the Corinthians may find in the wilderness-history of Israel, as in a mirror, the warning types.