Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 10:1

1 MOreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud , and all passed through the sea .

The Apostle saw that many in this Church of Corinth were puffed up with their knowledge, and other gifts and great priviledges with which God had blessed them; as also with the opinion of their being a Gospel-Church, and some of the first-fruits of the Gentiles unto Christ, and might therefore think, that they needed not to be pressed to such degrees of strictness and watchfulness; to beat them therefore off from this confidence and vain presumption, the Apostle here sets before them the example of the Church of the Jews, when he tells them, he would not have them ignorant, his meaning is, he would have them know and remember, he would have them well acquainted with, and to reflect upon this, That all the Jews in Moses his time, whom he calls their Father's, not according to the flesh; for the Corinthians were not descended from Jews, but with respect to the Covenant, and their relation they stood unto God, as they were the only people God had on Earth; these, he saith, were all of them (the whole Camp of Israel) under very great priviledges, of which he reckoneth divers, they were under the conduct of the Cloud, Exod. 13.21.

and they all obtained the favour of God so far for them, as to divide the Red sea, so as they passed through it upon dry ground.

Marginal references: Num. 9.18. Deut. 1.33. Neh. 9.12, 19. Psal. 78.14.; Exod. 14.22. Josh. 4.23.