Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
DANGER OF FELLOWSHIP WITH IDOLATRY ILLUSTRATED IN THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL: SUCH FELLOWSHIP INCOMPATIBLE WITH FELLOWSHIP IN THE LORD'S SUPPER. EVEN LAWFUL THINGS ARE TO BE FORBORNE, SO AS NOT TO HURT WEAK BRETHREN. (1Co. 10:1-33)
Moreover—The oldest manuscripts read "for." Thus the connection with the foregoing chapter is expressed. Ye need to exercise self-denying watchfulness notwithstanding all your privileges, lest ye be castaways. For the Israelites with all their privileges were most of them castaways through want of it.
ignorant—with all your boasted "knowledge."
our fathers—The Jewish Church stands in the relation of parent to the Christian Church.
all—Arrange as the Greek, "Our fathers were all under the cloud"; giving the "all" its proper emphasis. Not so much as one of so great a multitude was detained by force or disease (Psalms 105:37) [BENGEL]. Five times the "all" is repeated, in the enumeration of the five favors which God bestowed on Israel (I Corinthians 10:1-4). Five times, correspondingly, they sinned (I Corinthians 10:6-10). In contrast to the "all" stands "many (rather, 'the most') of them" (I Corinthians 10:5). All of them had great privileges, yet most of them were castaways through lust. Beware you, having greater privileges, of sharing the same doom through a similar sin. Continuing the reasoning (I Corinthians 9:24), "They which run in a race, run all, but one receiveth the prize."
under the cloud—were continually under the defense of the pillar of cloud, the symbol of the divine presence (Exodus 13:21-22; Psalms 105:39; compare Isaiah 4:5).
passed through the sea—by God's miraculous interposition for them (Exodus 14:29).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 10:1:
Exodus 13:21-22
Exodus 14:22
1 Corinthians 9:24
1 Corinthians 10:1
Galatians 4:21
2 Timothy 3:16
Hebrews 1:1
1 Peter 3:21
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