1 CORINTHIANS 10:5 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.”
Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. — Despite sacramental participation, the plural eusthēsan (were pleased with) is negated: most failed. Strewn corpses in the desert (kophthai en tē erēmō) mark divine judgment. Sacramental privilege does not guarantee salvation; disobedience brings destruction. This is the warning: participation in God's gifts does not exempt from accountability.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:5
“For they were overthrown,” says he, “in the wilderness.” Declaring by this word both the sweeping destruction, and the punishments and the vengeance inflicted by God, and that they did not so much as attain to the rewards proposed to them. Neither were they in the land of promise when He did these things unto them, but without and afar somewhere, and wide of that country; He thus visiting them with a double vengeance, both by not permitting them to see the land, and this too…
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