their very nature, and thus they aroused God’s wrath. 7) The general application is now followed by the specifications which Paul has in mind. Neither be ye idolaters as some of those, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication as some of those committed fornication and fell in one day twenty-three thousand. Neither let us tempt the Lord as some of those tempted and perished by the serpents. Neither murmur even as some of those
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