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Chapter 10

Warning Against Overconfidence. [a]I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 10:1–5 Paul embarks unexpectedly upon a panoramic survey of the events of the Exodus period. The privileges of Israel in the wilderness are described in terms that apply strictly only to the realities of the new covenant (“baptism,” “spiritual food and drink”); interpreted in this way they point forward to the Christian experience (1 Cor 10:1–4). But those privileges did not guarantee God’s permanent pleasure (1 Cor 10:5).