1 Corinthians 10:11 · World English Bible
1 Corinthians 10:11 Meaning Now All These Things Happened to Them
Now all these things happened to them by way of example, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
What does 1 Corinthians 10:11 mean?
The old accounts are not distant records but patterns of what unfolds inside a person right now. The wanderings, the murmurings, the falling in the wilderness are ensamples, figures cast so the inner meaning could be read in whoever carries them.
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The old accounts are not distant records but patterns of what unfolds inside a person right now. The wanderings, the murmurings, the falling in the wilderness are ensamples, figures cast so the inner meaning could be read in whoever carries them. The ends of the world are not a date on a calendar but the ripened state of an individual awareness, the point where the ages of one's own growth come to their edge and the whole pattern presses for recognition. Written for admonition means the images turn a person back toward the self they describe.
What scripture set down as ancient events is the recurring drama of consciousness, and the close of the age has come upon whoever now stands ready to see the story enacted within.
Ends of the world: the ripened edge of a person's own awareness, where the ages of inner growth come to their turning point
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Live 1 Corinthians 10:11 today
- When an old memory of yours comes up today, something you usually replay as a finished story, sit with it for a minute as a description of how you still work rather than something that happened once and ended.
- Next time a friend tells you about someone else's mess in a group chat or over coffee, listen for the part of it that is also yours before you reply with an opinion.
- Under pressure, when you catch yourself complaining about the same thing you complained about last month, treat the repeat as the actual message instead of the subject you are complaining about.
Which story about my past have I been reading as history when it is really a description of me right now?
The same truth in other traditions
Bhagavad Gita
The battlefield and its warring relatives are the pull of a single person's own inner forces, so the story is read as something happening inside the one who hears it.
Zen
The old cases handed down from past teachers are not history to admire. A student sits with one until it turns and points straight back at the student's own mind.
Sufism · Rumi
The tales of prophets and kings are a mirror held up to the listener, and whoever looks for mere events in them has missed the face looking back.
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