Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
6. Now these things were types to us. He warns us in still more explicit terms, that we have to do with the punishment that was inflicted upon them, so that they are a lesson to us, that we may not provoke the anger of God as they did.
Carnal desire indulged is the root of all sin and must be checked at its first rise, before it bears sway and carries us where we cannot foresee. The Corinthians ate and drank before the idol as if the sacrifice had sanctified it; this was idolatry, and the wilderness falls stand as their mirror.
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Commenting on 1 Corinthians 10:6-14
Now these things were our examples,.... Or "types"; that is, these punishments which were inflicted on these persons for their sins, were designed as instructions for others to avoid the like sins, that they may escape the same punishment; just as the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, being condemned with an overthrow, as these men were, were made ensamples to all that should hereafter live...