1 Corinthians 10:2 BSB

1 Corinthians 10:2

They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

BSB

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ASV

and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

KJV

And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And were all baptized unto Moses - Rather Into Moses - into the covenant of which Moses was the mediator; and by this typical baptism they were brought under the obligation of acting according to the Mosaic precepts, as Christians receiving Christian baptism are said to be baptized Into Christ, and are thereby brought under obligation to keep the precepts of the Gospel.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The manna on which they fed was a type of Christ crucified, the bread which came down from heaven, which whoso eateth shall live forever. Their drink was a stream fetched from a rock which followed them in all their journeyings in the wilderness; and this rock was Christ, that is, in type and figure.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (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.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὸν	ton	<the>	G3588 →
Μωϋσῆν	Mōusēn	Moses	G3475 →
ἐβαπτίσθησαν	ebaptisthēsan	were baptized	G907 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
νεφέλῃ	nephelē	cloud	G3507 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῇ	tēa	the	G3588 →
θαλάσσῃ	thalassē	sea	G2281 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 6:3
Or aren’t you aware that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?
leads to
- Galatians 3:27
  For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
- Galatians 2:20–21
  I have been crucified with Christ, and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved…
- Romans 6:8
  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
- 1 Corinthians 12:13
  For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.
- Romans 6:4–5
  We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may walk in newness of…
Through
Exodus 14:31
When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
leads to
- John 2:11
  Jesus performed this, the first of His signs, at Cana in Galilee. He thus revealed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.
- John 11:45
  Therefore many of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him.
- John 8:30–32
  As Jesus spoke these things, many believed in Him.

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