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18. βλέπετε τὸν Ἰσραήλ. Second reason (see 1Co 10:16). As the Christian sacrificial feasts, so are those of the Jews.
κατὰ σάρκα. As distinguished from Christians, who are Israel κατὰ πνεῦμα. See Rom 2:28; Gal 4:26.
κοινωνοὶ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου. Sharers, inasmuch as part of the victim was consumed on the altar, and part eaten by the worshipper. Bengel remarks that ‘he to whom anything is offered, the things which are offered, the altar on which they are offered,’ and he might have added those who offer them, ‘have communion with each other.’ If, therefore, any one knowingly partakes of an idol sacrifice, as such (it would seem that some went so far as to contend that Christians might do so), he makes himself responsible for the worship of the idol, and all the evils with which that worship is connected.