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1. Ov 6e\u de vfiag a yvoe/v, Moreover , I would not that you should he ignorant) The phrase refers to the whole passage ; for the Corinthians were acquainted with the history; comp. ix. 13. JThe particle moreover transfers the discourse from the singular, ix. 26, to the plural. — oi var'spsg fipuv, our fathers) even the fathers of the Corinthians ; for the Gentiles succeeded to the place of the Jews. \_Our ancestors, he says, in respect of com- munion with God . — V. g.] — ‘Truvreg, all) had gone out of Egypt — there was not so much as one of so great a multitude detained either by force or on account of disease, Ps. cv. 37. Five divine benefits are mentioned, 1—4, and as many sins committed by our fathers, 6—10. — v^b rr\v vsfsXrjv yj&av, were under the cloud) Ex. xiii. 21, 22. — ha r^g 6a Xdaarig dirjXdov, passed through the sea) Ex. xiv. 29.
2. K at crams sig rbv i/3acmVai/ro, and all were baptized
unto Moses) %a /, and so. He resumes what he slightly touched upon in the preceding verse about the cloud and the sea, and shows to what each refers. They were baptized in the cloud, so far as they were under it ; and in the sea, so far as they passed through it. They were neither wet with the cloud nor with the sea, much less were they immersed in either (although some conjecture, that a miraculous rain fell from that cloud, from what is said in Ps. lxviii. 9, cv. 39), nor is the term bap- tism found in the writings of Moses. But Paul uses this term with great propriety, 1. Because the cloud and the sea are in their own nature water (wherefore also Paul is silent respecting the pillar of fire) ; 2. The cloud and the sea took the fathers out of sight and restored them again to view, and this is what the water does to those who are baptized. 3. They were initiated
1 Preference, however, is given to the particle yoip, both in the margin of the first and second Ed., and in the Germ. Vers. — E. B.
ABCD(A)Gjfy Vulg. Orig. 4,143e; 144a, Iren. 264 Cypr. 157,277 have yap. Rec. Text le with Orig. l,541e, some MSS. of Vulg. and both Syr. Versions. — Ed.
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