1st Corinthians Chapter 10 verse 6 Holy Bible
Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.
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But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
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and those things became types of us, for our not passionately desiring evil things, as also these did desire.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - These things were our examples. If this rendering be adopted, perhaps "examples" is the best equivalent of the original tupoi, as in Philippians 3:17, "Walk so as ye have us for an example (tupelo)." It may, however, mean "types," i.e. foreshadowing symbols, as in Romans 5:14, where Adam is the "figure" (tupos) of Christ. But, in spite of Alford's decisive rejection of it, the rendering, "Now in these things they proved to be figures of us," is at least equally probable. To the intent. Of course, the events had their own immediate instruction, but the example which they involved was the ulterior purpose of their being so ordained by the providence of God. As they also lusted. (For quails, Numbers 11:4, 33; and see Psalm 95:7-11.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Now these things were our examples.--Better, Now these things were types of us. "Now" introduces the contrast between the physical Israel and the spiritual Israel, between the physical death which befell the majority of the former, and the spiritual death which, if privileges be neglected or abused, must befall the latter.To the intent.--St. Paul regards everything that has happened in history as having a divine purpose of blessing for others. All this material suffering on their part will not be in vain if it teaches us the spiritual lesson which God would have us learn from it.We should not lust after evil things.--The Apostle now sets forth the causes with which the majority of the Israelities neutralised the great advantages in which all had shared. The lusting after evil things must be taken as applying to their general conduct (evidenced especially in the circumstances mentioned in Numbers 11:4; Numbers 11:18). "As they also" directly connects the sins which the Corinthians were in danger of with the sins which led to the overthrow of the Israelites. The idolatry and eating and drinking and committing fornication all refer to kinds of sin which the Corinthians were liable to commit if they did not keep themselves perfectly distinct from the heathen. (See 1Corinthians 6:12.)
