The sacraments in 1 Corinthians 10
Baptism “For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea.”- v.1 Paul introduces the adminitions to the Corinthians by a reference to their spiritual ancestors- the Hebrew people, the generation of Moses, who were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea (v.2). Nevertheless, God through the cloud and the sea delivered them from destruction and brought them salvation in two ways: through the cloud- God Himself walked in front of them manifesting by means of a pillar of fire at night and a cloud by day- guiding their path, moving them toward the promised land, redeeming them from the land of bondage and delivering them over to a state of life. “Through the sea” God delivered them from the Egyptians, for some of them however this baptism of the sea did not move them to a renunciation of the old life, and while bodily were far from Egypt, they were with their hearts far ...