1 CORINTHIANS 10:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.”
We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did—and in a single day twenty-three thousand of them died. — Porneia among Israel brought plague; twenty-three thousand fell (Num 25:9). The juxtaposition of idolatry and sexual sin is not accidental: pagan worship involved prostitution and sexual rites. The Corinthians, tempted toward idol feasts, risk the same downfall.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 10:8
“Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, 'the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.'” Do you hear how he even calls them “idolaters?” here indeed making the declaration, but afterwards bringing the proof. And he assigned the cause too wherefore they ran to those tables; and this was gluttony. Wherefore having said, “to the intent that we should not lust after evil things,” and having added, nor “be idolaters,” he names the cause…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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