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188 "THIS MEANS EVERLASTING LIFE"
must resist those enticing defilers . We must keep
strict self-control over ourselves . The apostle says :
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"I browbeat my body and lead it as a slave,
that, after I have preached to others, I myself
should not become disapproved somehow. Now
I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that
our forefathers were all under the cloud and all
passed through the sea and all got baptized into
Moses by means of the cloud and of the sea ; and
all ate the same spiritual food and all drank the
same spiritual drink . For they used to drink from
the spiritual rock-mass which followed them, and
that rock-mass meant the Christ . Nevertheless,
on most of them God did not express his approval,
for they were laid low in the wilderness . Now
these things became our examples, for us not to
be persons desiring injurious things, even as they
desired them . Neither become idolaters, as some
of them did ; just as it is written : 'The people sat
down to eat and drink, and they rose up to revel
boisterously .' Neither let us practice fornication,
as some of them committed fornication, only to
fall, twenty-three thousand of them in one day .
Neither let us put Jehovah to the test, as some of
them put him to the test, only to perish by the
serpents . Neither be murmurers, just as some of
them murmured, only to perish by the destroyer .
Now these things went on befalling them as examples
and they were written for a warning to us
upon whom the accomplished ends of the systems
of things have arrived . Consequently, let him, that
12 . In proof, to what warning examples does the apostle
refer us?