1 Corinthians 10:1-17
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
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- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- Comparative texts about Baptism: Water & Spirit from DSS, Josephus, Babylonian Talmud. At (Rutgers University Dept of Religion) Mahlon H. Smith's Into His Own: Perspective on the World of Jesus companion to the historical study of Christian texts.
- "Supper & Eucharist," The Jesus Database, an online annotated inventory of the traditions concerning the life and teachings of Jesus. Dr. Gregory C. Jenks, FaithFutures Foundation.
- Chapter I, The Epistle of Ignatius to the Magnesians, Ignatius of Antioch (c.110). (Longer version only - 4th cent interpolation.)
- Chapter IX, The Epistle of Ignatius to the Philadelphians, Ignatius of Antioch (c. 110). (Longer Version only - 4th cent interpolation)
- Similitude VII, Shepherd of Hermas. (c.145)
- IV.XIV.3, IV.XXVII.3, IV.XXXVI.6, Adversus Haereses, Irenaeus of Lyons. (c. 180)
- Chapter I, Chapter IX, Adversus Judaeos, Tertullian (c. 198)
- Chapter XX, On Baptism, Tertullian (c. 198)
- I.11, II.10, Paedagogus, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
- II.6, V.1, VII.16, Stromata, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
- Chapter V, The Prescription of Heretics, Tertullian (c.200)
- II.9, On The Apparel of Women, Tertullian (c. 202)
- III.V, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 209)
- IV.35, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 210)
- Chapter LVIII, On the Resurrection of the Flesh, Tertullian (c. 211)
- V.7, Against Marcion, Tertullian (c. 212)
- III.II.3, First Principles (De Principiis), Origen. (c.225)
- V.III, The Refutation of all Heresies (Philosophumena), Hippolytus of Rome. (c. 225)
- I.8, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Origen. (c.228)
- VI.26, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Philocalia [anthology of Origen prepared by St. Basil and St. Gregory Nazianzen], Origen. (c.230)
- IV.XLIII, IV.XLIX, Against Celsus, Origen. (c.246)
- XII.10, XII.11, Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew, Origen. (c.247)
- Epistle LI -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 252)
- Epistle LXXV -- Cyprian of Carthage (c. 255)
- From the
Geneva Notes.
- "To tempt Christ is to provoke him to a combat as it were, which those men do who abuse the knowledge that he has given them, and make it to serve for a cloak for their lusts and wickedness."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
- "Carnal desires gain strength by indulgence, therefore should be checked in their first rise. Let us fear the sins of Israel, if we would shun their plagues."
- From
Wesley's
Notes.
- "It would have been improper to say, Neither let us be idolaters; for he was himself in no danger of idolatry; nor probably of murmuring against Christ, or the divine providence."
- On Temptation (1 Cor 10:13). Sermon by John Wesley.
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
- "Christ is the pillar cloud that screens us from the heat of God's wrath. Christ as "the light of the world" is our "pillar of fire" to guide us in the darkness of the world. As the rock when smitten sent forth the waters, so Christ, having been once for all smitten, sends forth the waters of the Spirit. As the manna bruised in mills fed Israel, so Christ, when "it pleased the Lord to bruise Him," has become our spiritual food. A strong proof of inspiration is given in this fact, that the historical parts of Scripture, without the consciousness even of the authors, are covert prophecies of the future."
- From
The People's New
Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
- "Neither let us tempt Christ, as, etc. The event referred to is narrated in Num. 21:4-6, which see. The application is, that we should not be discontented over hardships or long for the sinful pleasures of a former life from which we have parted."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies and Exegesis:
- Pulpit Fiction, podcast. Reflections of lectionary text, pop culture, current events, etc. Robb Mc Coy and Eric Fistler, 2016
- .Commentary,
1 Corinthians 10:1-13, (Lent 3C), Samuel Glere, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2016.
- "Paul reminds us that God is faithful to us as one body."
- "A Plain Account"Stefanie Rowinski, 2016.
- "Paul begins chapter 10 by telling family stories. Though most of his readers were Gentile Christians, Paul wants them to know the stories of the Israelites are their stories too."
- The Center for Excellence in Preaching, Scott Hoezee, resources from Calvin Theological Seminary: Comments & Observations, Textual Points, Illustration Ideas, 2016.
- Commentary,
1 Corinthians 10:1-13, (Lent 3C), Carla Works, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2013.
- "In 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Paul includes a rather bizarre retelling of Israel’s exodus to illustrate for the Corinthians their own precarious position as a church living in a wilderness time -- a limbo of sorts between their newfound freedom in Christ and the waited fruition of God’s kingdom."
- "Crushed! Another View"Michael Danner, The Hardest Question, 2013.
(Also see "Crushed!")
- "When people get crushed, is it sometimes God's fault?"
- Commentary,
1 Corinthians 10:1-13, (Lent 3C), Susan Hedahl, Preaching This Week,
WorkingPreacher.org, 2010.
- "Verse 7 holds the key: it is behavior, faux spiritual and otherwise, which is idolatry."
-
"First
Thoughts on Passages on Year C Epistle Passages in the Lectionary,"
Lent 3, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in
Australia.
- "Faith understood as an ongoing relation on engagement in God and with God in the world can never sit back in distraction or religious self-preoccupation or self indulgence, because the God we know in Jesus keeps opening our eyes to both joy and pain, to wonder and to need, and inviting us to see them and not withdraw from them, which is the wont of religion."
- Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
- "Anne Dutton as a Spiritual Director," study guide, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Women and the Church," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2009. Focus article: "Anne Dutton as a Spiritual Director," Michael Sciretti.
- "Table Fellowship," study guide for adults, Robert B. Kruschwitz, (other resources at) "Food and Hunger," Christian Reflection, The Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University, 2004.
-
"Learn from
Old Israel's Experience," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources.
- "Our passage for study is part of wider section where Paul deals with the dangers associated with participation in pagan religion, in particular, eating food offered to idols."
-
Kairos CoMotion Lectionary Discussion,
1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Wesley White. "A place of
conversation regarding Progressive Christianity."
- "No safety. No exemption. Not for Moses, Jesus, me, or thee. Herein is a commonality between us."
- "Meals, Food and
Tablefellowship." Jerome H. Neyrey, in The Social Sciences and New Testament
Interpretation, 159-82. R. L. Rohrbaugh, ed. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1996.
- "How can readers understand the particular ceremony of meals and table fellowship? Why are meals so important as symbols of broader social relationships? How can we peer below the surface and grasp the social dynamics encoded in meals and commensality, what anthropologists call "the language of meals"?"
- Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
ATLAS Access options are available for academic institutions, alumni of
selected theological schools, and clergy/church offices. Annotated list of "starting place" articles at ATLAS for this week's texts (includes direct links).
- Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, "TA DROMENA KAI TA
LEOGMENA: The Eucharistic Memory of Jesus' Words in First
Corinthians," Harvard Theological Review, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Baird, William,
"1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Expository Article,"
Interpretation,
1990.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Bandstra, Andrew J., "Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 10:1-11,"
Calvin Theological Journal,
1971.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Ciocchi, David M., "Understanding Our Ability to Endure Temptation: A Theological Watershed,"
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Collier, Gary D.,
"'That We Might Not Crave Evil': The Structure and Argument of 1 Corinthians
10:1-13," Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1994.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Garland, David E.,
"The Dispute Over food Sacrificed to Idols (1 Cor 8:1 - 11:1),"
Perspectives in Religious Studies, 2003.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Goppelt, Leonhard, tranlsated by Mathias
Rissi, "Paul and
Heilgeschichte: Conclusions from Romans 4 and 1 Corinthians
10:1-13," Interpretation, 1967.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Hays, Richard B.,
"On Hearing Bad News,"
The Christian Century, 1992.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Kloha, Jeffrey, "Idols, Eating and Rights (1 Cor
8:1-11:1): Faithful and Loving Witness in a Pluralistic Culture,"
Concordia Journal, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Marty, Martin E.,
"Full Communion," The Christian Century, 2001.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Meeks, Wayne A.,
"'And Rose up to Play': Midrash and Paraenesis in 1 Corinthians 10:1-22,"
Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1982.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Oropeza, B.J., "Apostasy in the Wilderness: Paul's Message to the Corinthians in a State of
Eschatological Liminality," Journal for the Study of the New
Testament, 1999.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Smit, J., "'Do Not Be Idolaters': Paul's Rhetoric in First Corinthians 10:1-22,"
Novum Testamentum, 1997.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Songer, Harold S., "Problems Arising from the Worship of Idols: 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1,"
Review & Expositor, 1983.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Still, E. Coye, III, "Divisions over Leaders and Food
Offered to Idols: the Parallel Thematic Structures of 1 Corinthians
4:6-21 and 8:1-11:1," Tyndale Bulletin, 2004.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Still, E. Coye, III, "Paul's Aims Regarding
EIDWLOTHUTA: A New Proposal for Interpreting 1
Corinthians 8:1-11:1," Novum Testamentum, 2002.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Tucker, J. Brian, "The Role of Civic Identity on the
Pauline Mission in Corinth," Didaskalia, 2008.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Willimon, William H.,
"The Cup of Death," The Christian Century, 1982.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Willis, Wendell, "1 Corinthians 8-10:
A Retrospective after Twenty-Five Years," Restoration Quarterly,
2007.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Wright, N.T., "One God, One Lord, One People:
Incarnational Christology for a Church in a Pagan Environment," Ex
Auditu, 1991.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Aitken, Ellen Bradshaw, "TA DROMENA KAI TA
LEOGMENA: The Eucharistic Memory of Jesus' Words in First
Corinthians," Harvard Theological Review, 1997.
- Sermons:
- "The Cloud and the Sea," Beth LaRocca-Pitts, Day1, 2016.
- With Children:
- Worshiping with Children, Lent 3C, Including children in the congregation's worship, using the Revised Common Lectionary, Carolyn C. Brown, 2016.
- "Storypath Lectionary Links: Connecting Children's Literature with our Faith Story," 2016, Union Presbyterian Seminary.
- "Temptation Island," Jim Kerlin, childrensermons.com.
- "A Shoo-Roo to Shoo Satan," MSSS Animal Tale, 1 Cor 10:13.
- Drama:
- "Temptation," Denise Busenitz, dramatix.
- "The Sin Chair," Teresa Jensen, dramatix.
- "Leftovers," Eric Stapleton, dramatix.
- Graphics & Bulletin Materials:
- Clip Art, 1 Corinthians 10:2, Fr. Richard Lonsdale, Resources for Catholic Educators.
- Hymns and Music:
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: 1 Corinthians 10:13, 16. The Cyber Hymnal.
- Hymnal Scripture References, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship.
- Fine Arts Images Linked at The Text This Week's Art Index:
- Study Links and Resources for the Book of 1 Corinthians
