Ambrosiaster

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

1,043 passages across 16 books of the Bible · Who was this?

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  1. 1 Corinthians 10:2
    Paul says the Jews were under the cloud in order to point out that everything that happened to them is meant to be understood as a picture of the truth which has been revealed to us. Under the cloud they were protected from their enemies until they were delivered from death, analogous to baptism. For when they passed through the Red Sea they were delivered from the Egyptians who died in it, and their death prefigured our baptism, which puts our adversaries to death as well.

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  2. 1 Corinthians 10:4
    The manna and the water which flowed from the rock are called spiritual because they were formed not according to the law of nature but by the power of God working independently of the natural elements. They were created for a time as figures of what we now eat and drink in remembrance of Christ the Lord.

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  3. 1 Corinthians 10:9
    The Jews were putting Christ to the test, because it was he who spoke to Moses. Paul is warning us here not to do the same as they did.

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  4. 1 Corinthians 10:10
    Those who were destroyed prefigured Judas, who betrayed Christ and was eliminated from the number of the apostles by the judgment of God..

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  5. 1 Corinthians 10:12
    Paul says this to those who, relying on their knowledge that it was lawful to eat anything, were a cause of scandal to their weaker brethren. Thinking that they had risen to a higher level, they in fact declined because of the teaching of the false apostles and condemned Paul when they were the guilty ones.

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  6. 1 Corinthians 10:14
    Paul is exhorting the Corinthians to avoid any connection with idolatry, so that not only their bodies but their minds as well might be separated from it in order to destroy any form of temptation. For anyone involved in idolatry will expect something out of it. To trust in an idol is to turn away from God.

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  7. 1 Corinthians 10:20
    Paul is saying that beneath the surface of the idol there is a demonic power which is out to corrupt faith in the one God. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

  8. 1 Corinthians 10:21
    Anyone who drinks the cup of demons insults the cup of Christ, and anyone who eats at the table of demons revolts against the table of Christ, that is to say, the altar of the Lord, and crucifies his body again.

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  9. 1 Corinthians 10:24
    It is true that anyone who is an idolater will seek what pleases him alone. He will place scandals in the way of the weaker brother’s conscience. This is why we ought to be quick to resist doing just what we want to do, for the love of Christ and for the salvation of our neighbors.

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  10. 1 Corinthians 10:30
    Paul is saying that an idolater can have it both ways. On the one hand, he can glory in his idols, and on the other hand he can attack the apostle for eating what has been sacrificed to them, even if the latter does so after giving thanks to God. Such a person has an excuse for remaining in his error and sets a bad example to the brethren.

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  11. 1 Corinthians 10:31
    To eat and drink to God’s glory is to eat and drink after giving thanks to the Creator.

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  12. 1 Corinthians 10:32
    Offense is given to the Jews when they see that a Christian, who claims the inheritance of the law and the prophets, is not afraid of idols, which they detest. Offense is given to the Greeks, that is, to the Gentiles, if their sin of idolatry is not only not contested but actually encouraged by people in the church who fail to reject things sacrificed to idols.

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  13. 1 Corinthians 11:1
    It is normal that we should imitate those whom God has set over us as teachers. For if they imitate God, why should we not imitate them? For just as God the Father sent Christ as the teacher and author of life, so Christ sent the apostles to be our teachers, so that we should imitate them, for we are unable to imitate him directly.

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  14. 1 Corinthians 11:2
    Having attacked their morals and behavior, Paul now goes on to correct their traditions.

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  15. 1 Corinthians 11:3
    God is the head of Christ because he begat him; Christ is the head of the man because he created him, and the man is the head of the woman because she was taken from his side. Thus one expression has different meanings, according to the difference of person and substantive relationship.

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  16. 1 Corinthians 11:7
    Although man and woman are of the same substance, the man has relational priority because he is the head of the woman. He is greater than she is by cause and order, but not by substance. Woman is the glory of man, but there is an enormous distance between that and being the glory of God.

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  17. 1 Corinthians 11:10
    The veil signifies power, and the angels are bishops.

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  18. 1 Corinthians 11:12
    Paul adds that all things are from God so that the woman will not be upset because of her dependent condition nor will the man be proud of his responsible position.

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  19. 1 Corinthians 11:13
    This was the church’s tradition, but since the Corinthians were ignoring it, Paul made his appeal to nature.

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  20. 1 Corinthians 11:14
    This is in line with Leviticus [19:27], which prohibits a man from having long hair.

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