Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 10:11

11 Now all these things happened to them for ensamples : and they are written for our admonition , upon whom the ends of the world are come .

All these dispensations of Divine Providence in the revelations of Divine wrath against several sorts of sinners, happened to the Jews, which were Gods first and ancient people, and enjoyed those great priviledges, which were before mentioned, not only as just punishments upon them for their sins, but as Examples or Types, to let the succeeding World know what they should find God towards such kind of sinners,

and God in his wise Providence hath ordered the Record of them in holy Writ, that others who should live afterward, might read, and hear, and fear, and take warning, and beware of such wicked actions, as pulled down such vengeance upon a people, than which none can plead to a nearer relation to God, or the receiving of greater favours and priviledges from him.

The Apostles ordinarily in their Epistles speak of the World, as nigh to an end in their Age, though it hath since continued more than 1600 years; which would incline one to think, that they thought it would have been at an end before this time, but had no such Revelation from God. So true is that of our Saviour, That of that day and hour knoweth no man, and it should teach us to beware of too particular determinations in the case, which the Apostles did not make, though they spake of theirs as the last times, and themselves as such upon whom the ends of the World were come.

Marginal references: Or, Types.; Rom. 15.4. Chap. 9.10.; Phil. 4.5. Heb. 10.25.