1 Coríntios 10

Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

1 Coríntios 10:2

The history of the exodus was an allegory of the Christian people that was yet to be. — THE USEFULNESS OF BELIEF 8

1 Coríntios 10:4

All symbols seem in some way to personify the realities of which they are symbols. So, St. Paul says, "The rock was Christ," because the rock in question symbolized Christ. — City of God 18.46

1 Coríntios 10:7

What is as similar to the play of children as the worshiping of idols? — QUESTIONS 61

1 Coríntios 10:13

Why is this written if we are now so endowed that by the strength of our free will we are able to overcome all temptations merely by bearing them? — LETTER 179, TO BISHOP JOHN

1 Coríntios 10:16

That chalice, or rather, what the chalice holds, consecrated by the word of God, is the blood of Christ. Through those elements the Lord wished to entrust to us his body and the blood which he poured out for the remission of sins. If you have received worthily, you are what you have received. — EASTER SERMON 227

1 Coríntios 10:17

So by bread you are instructed as to how you ought to cherish unity. Was that bread made of one grain of wheat? Were there not, rather, many grains? However, before they became bread, these grains were separate. They were joined together in water after a certain amount of crushing. For unless the grain is ground and moistened with water, it cannot arrive at that form which is called bread. So, too, you were previously ground, as it were, by the humiliation of your fasting and by the sacrament of exorcism. Then came the baptism of water. You were moistened, as it were, so as to arrive at the form of bread. But without fire, bread does not yet exist. — EASTER SERMON 227

1 Coríntios 10:17

The one who is properly said to eat the body of Christ and to drink his blood is the one who is incorporated into the unity of his body. Heretics and schismatics can receive the sacrament but to no avail—in fact, to their harm—since the result is to increase their pain rather than to curtail the length of their punishment. — City of God 21.25

1 Coríntios 10:26

One does not sin who afterward unwittingly eats food which he had previously refused as belonging to idols. Vegetables and any kind of fruit grown in any field are God's who created them.

1 Coríntios 10:33

The apostle wanted believers to please all men, and he took pleasure in pleasing them, not because he swelled up inside at their praise but because by being pleasing all might be edified in Christ.