The writer then goes on to declare the superiority, finality, and unrepeatable character of Christ’s sacrifice. In this light, Paul develops his sacramental theology in 1 Corinthians 10 and 11. Baptized into Christ just as they were “baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea” (1 Cor. 10:1), the exodus generation only enters the true promised land together with us, foreshadowed when they “all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual
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