By the example of the Israelites, he shews that we are not to build too much upon favours received but to avoid their sins and fly from the service of idols and from things offered to idols. 10:1. For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud: and all passed through the sea. 10:2. And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud and in the sea: In Moses... Under the conduct of Moses, they received baptism in figure, by passing under the cloud, and through the sea; and they partook of the body and blood of Christ in figure, by eating of the manna, (called here a spiritual food because it was a figure of the true bread which comes down from heaven,) and drinking the water, miraculously brought out of the rock, called here a spiritual rock, because it was also a figure of Christ. 10:3. And did all eat the same spiritual food: 10:4. And all drank the same spiritual drink: (And they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.) 10:5. But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert. 10:6. Now these things were done 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?