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which was Christ, ver. 4, they yet complained for want of water, Num. xxi. 5. Therefore they were also preserved from the fiery serpents, by raising a serpent on a pole, a type of Christ . As Abraham u saw Christ’s day” [John viii. 56], as Moses embraced u the reproach of Christ” [Heb. xi. 26], so the Israel- ites tempted Christ : and yet the Corinthians could more directly tempt Christ.
10. yoyyv^srs, do not murmur) comp. ver. 22. Moses and Aaron were the secondary objects of murmuring in the Old Testament. — eyoyyvta v, murmured) Num. xvi. 41. With Moses, murmuring preceded the temptation ; but Paul places murmuring after the temptation in the last place, as being most like to that sin, into which the Corinthians were liable to fall. He who is weaker [than the Lord], ought not to murmur ; comp. ver. 22 ; Ex. xvi. 8, 10, at the end of the ver. — dcrwXoi/ro, perished) ibid. ver. 49. — oXofyevrov, destroyer) Comp. Wisd. xviii. 22, 25 ; Heb. xi. 28, note.
11. ndvra , all things) He resumes what he said, ver. 6, and in this recapitulation adds, all things , which stands in apposition with ensamples. — 1 tvttoi) ensamples . — exe/vajg, to them) construed with happened. — eypa<pr\, were written) The use of the Old Tes- tament Scripture is in the fullest force in the New Testament. It was not written out in the beginning [but subsequently : for the edification of us in the ends of the world]. — rd reX»j ruv aiuvuv, the ends of the ages) oi a/uvsg, all things, even former ages ; rd rs'kr,, in the New Testament, comp. Rom. x. 4. The plural has great force. All things meet together, and are coming to their height : benefits and dangers, punishments and rewards ; comp, the fol- lowing verse. All that now remains is that Christ should come, as the avenger and judge ; and until that happens, these ends, being many, include various periods succeeding each other. — xar/ivr7)ffev, have come upon) as it were unexpectedly. He does not say, we, who have come upon the ends. The same word occurs, xiv. 36.
1 The Germ. Ver. shows on the margin of the 2d Ed. the reading rviriKag raised from the mark g to the mark y. — E. B.
Lachm. reads r vkikus, with ABC Orig. 1, 170 ; 536/; 4, 8e; fg Vulg. iren. (“in figura ”), Hilary (in prseformationem). Tisch. reads two/, with D(A)G Memph., Theb., later Syr. (Syr. has in exemplum nostrum). — Ed.
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