Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
8. Neither let us commit fornication Now he speaks of fornication, in respect of which, as appears from historical accounts, great licentiousness prevailed among the Corinthians, and we may readily infer from what goes before, that those who had professed themselves to be Christ’s were not yet altogether free from this vice.
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 let us commit fornication,.... To which the Corinthians were much addicted: hence the apostle elsewhere, in this epistle, makes use of arguments, to dissuade from it, as he does here, they judging it to be no evil: as some of them committed; i.e.