e in a figure of us, that we should not
covet evil things, as they also coveted.

10:7. Neither become ye idolaters, as some of them, as it is written:
The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.

10:8. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them that committed
fornication: and there fell in one day three and twenty thousand.

10:9. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted and perished
by the serpent.

10:10. Neither do you murmur, as some of them murmured and were
destroyed by the destroyer.

10:11. Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are
written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

The ends of the world... That is, the last ages.

10:12. Wherefore, he that thinketh himself to stand, let him take heed
lest he fall.

10:13. Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human. And
God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which
you are able: but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be
able to bear it.

Or... no temptation hath taken hold of you... or come upon you as yet,
but what is human, or incident to man. Issue... or a way to escape.

10:14. Wherefore, my dearly beloved, fly from the service of idols.

10:15. I speak as to wise men: judge ye yourselves what I say.

10:16. The chalice of benediction which we bless, is it not the
communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread which we break, is it
not the partaking of the body of the Lord?

Which we bless... Here the apostle puts them in mind of their partaking
of the body and blood of Christ in the sacred mysteries, and becoming
thereby one mystical body with Christ. From whence he infers, ver. 21,
that they who are made partakers with Christ, by the eucharistic
sacrifice and sacrament, must not be made partakers with devils by
eating of the meats sacrificed to them.

10:17. For we, being many, are one bread, one body: all that partake of
one bread.

One bread... or, as it may be rendered, agreeably both to the Latin and
Greek, because the bread is one, all we, being many, are one body, who
partake of that one bread. For it is by our communicating with Christ,
and with one another, in this blessed sacrament, that we are formed into
one mystical body; and made, as it were, one bread, compounded of many
grains of corn, closely united together.

10:18. Behold Israel according to the flesh. Are not they that eat of
the sacrifi