Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
10. Neither murmur ye Others understand this to be the murmuring that arose, when the twelve, who had been sent to spy out the land, disheartened, on their return, the minds of the people. But as that murmuring was not punished suddenly by any special chastisement from the Lord, but was simply followed by the infliction of this punishment — that all were excluded from...
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.
AI summary
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 10:6-14
Neither murmur ye,.... Against the true apostles of Christ, and faithful ministers of the word; nor against the laws and ordinances of Christ, or providences of God; so some of the members of this church did, or were inclined to do: as some of them also murmured: as against the Lord, so against Moses and Aaron.