1 Corinthians 10:8-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:14

Wherefore, my dearly beloved ,.... Some copies add, "brethren"; as do the Complutensian edition, and Ethiopic version; all which endearing epithets are used to persuade to attend to the exhortation enforced upon the foregoing considerations; since the Jewish fathers, who were idolaters, fell so much under the divine displeasure; and since such who thought they stood were so liable to fall, and the temptation to which they exposed themselves was of such a dangerous consequence; therefore, ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:15

I speak as to wise men ,.... That is, what he was now going to say concerning the Lord's supper, and the communion which believers have with Christ in it, which they as Christians must have knowledge of; and concerning the participation of the altar the Israelites had, who ate of the sacrifices of it, which many of them, being Jews, as such must know; and therefore being fully persuaded of the propriety and pertinency of the instances he was about to produce, and of the justness of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:16

The cup of blessing, which we bless ,.... Meaning the cup of wine used in the Lord's supper, which being set apart for that service, is taken up, and the name of the Lord called upon over it; and he is blessed and praised for his wondrous love and grace, in the gift and mission of his Son, to shed his precious blood for us, for the remission of our sins; the whole church joining with the administrator, both in the act of blessing and praise over the cup, and in the participation of it. This... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:17

For we being many, are one bread and one body ,.... The several members of the church of Christ; particular believers are indeed many, considered in themselves, in their own persons; yet by virtue of their union to Christ, which is manifested by their communion with him, they are one bread with him, the bread of life, and one body with his, signified by the bread; they are of one and the same mass and lump, they are incorporated together, they are flesh of his flesh, and one spirit with him:... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:19

What say I then ?.... Or may be objected to, or inferred from, what I say; that an idol is anything, or that which is sacrificed to idols is anything ? to which must be answered, as the Syriac version reads, לא , "no", by no means; by running the parallel between Christians having communion with the body and blood of Christ, in the Lord's supper, through eating the bread and drinking the wine, the Israelites partaking of the altar, by eating of the sacrifices of it, and men's joining... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:20

But I say ,.... This is my sense and meaning, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice unto devils, and not to God ; reference is had to Deuteronomy 32:17 for what the Gentiles sacrificed, though they did not sacrifice intentionally to the idols of gold, silver, wood, and stone, but to God in them, as they pretended; yet inasmuch as in such worship and sacrifices they were directed, instigated, influenced, and assisted by devils, who took up their residence in these... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 10:21

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils ,.... Not only they ought not, but they could not rightly, truly, and really drink the cup of wine in the Lord's supper, in the true faith of Christ's bloodshed, and his sacrifice offered up for them, in remembrance of his love, and to the honour of his name; and also the cup of wine of libations, poured out and drank to the honour of the Heathen deities; these things are utterly inconsistent; no man can serve two masters, God and... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:8

Fell in one day three and twenty thousand - In Numbers 25:9 , the number is 24,000; and, allowing this to be the genuine reading, (and none of the Hebrew MSS. exhibit any various reading in the place), Moses and the apostle may be thus reconciled: in Numbers 25:4 , God commands Moses to take all the heads (the rulers) of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun; these possibly amounted to 1000, and those who fell by the plague were 23,000, so that the whole amounted... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us tempt Christ - I have already supposed, in the note on 1 Corinthians 10:4 ; (note), that Christ is intended by the spiritual rock that followed them: and that it was he, not the rock, that did follow or accompany the Israelites in the wilderness. This was the angel of God's presence who was with the Church in the wilderness, to whom our fathers would not obey, as St. Stephen says, Acts 7:38 , Acts 7:39 . Instead of Χριστον , Christ, several MSS. and a few versions have... read more

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