1 Corinthians 10:4 BSB

1 Corinthians 10:4

and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

BSB

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ASV

and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them: and the rock was Christ.

KJV

And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

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Commentary

3 voices

Irenaeus

Fragments from the Lost Writings of Irenaeus (202)

The sacred books acknowledge with regard to Christ, that as He is the Son of man, so is the same Being not a [mere] man; and as He is flesh, so is He also spirit, and the Word of God, and God.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Spiritual drink - By the βρωμα πνευματικον spiritual meat, and πομα πνευματικον, spiritual drink, the apostle certainly means both meat and drink, which were furnished to the Israelitish assembly miraculously, as well as typically: and he appears to borrow his expression from the Jews themselves, who expressly say הלחם הלז רוחני hallechem hallaz ruchani, that bread was spiritual, and מיים רוחניים היו meyim ruchainiyim haiu, the waters were spiritual. Alschech in legem. fol. 238, to which opinion the apostle seems particularly to refer. See Schoettgen. The spiritual rock that followed them - There is some difficulty in this verse.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

1Pe 2:6), accompanied them (Ex 33:15). "Followed" implies His attending on them to minister to them; thus, though mostly going before them, He, when occasion required it, followed "behind" (Ex 14:19). He satisfied all alike as to their bodily thirst whenever they needed it; as on three occasions is expressly recorded (Ex 15:24, 25;

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
αὐτὸ	auto	same	G846 →
πνευματικὸν	pneumatikon	spiritual	G4152 →
ἔπιον	epion	they drank	G4095 →
πόμα,	poma	drink	G4188 →
ἔπινον	epinon	they were drinking	G4095 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἐκ	ek	from	G1537 →
πνευματικῆς	pneumatikēs	[the] spiritual	G4152 →
ἀκολουθούσης	akolouthousēs	accompanying [them]	G190 →
πέτρας,	petras	rock,	G4073 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
πέτρα	petra	rock	G4073 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
ἦν	ēn	was	G1510 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Χριστός·	Christos	Christ;	G5547 →

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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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
John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
leads to
- John 6:35
  Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- John 7:38–39
  Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
- Isaiah 49:10
  They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
- Revelation 7:16
  ‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
Through
John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
leads to
- Isaiah 55:1
  “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- John 4:14
  But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- Isaiah 12:3
  With joy you will draw water from the springs of salvation,
Through
Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in…
leads to
- Psalms 105:41
  He opened a rock, and water gushed out; it flowed like a river in the desert.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About 1 Corinthians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About 1 Corinthians