I am not sure what to make of 1 Corinthians 10:10. I'm going to bold it and include the surrounding verses for context (this is from the NIV):
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to revel in idolatry.”a We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test Christ,b as some of them did, and were killed by snakes. And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
1Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
What exactly is meant by "complain" here? Clearly there is a place for lament (after all, there is the book of Lamentations), so something more specific seems in mind here.
(I am also curious about what is meant by "test Christ" in the previous verse as it seems unclear how this would have happened in the cited Old Testament context.)
These things took place as examples to keep us from craving evil things as they did. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and got up to revel in idolatry.”a We should not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand of them died. We should not test Christ,b as some of them did, and were killed by snakes. And do not complain, as some of them did, and were killed by the destroying angel.
1Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.
What exactly is meant by "complain" here? Clearly there is a place for lament (after all, there is the book of Lamentations), so something more specific seems in mind here.
(I am also curious about what is meant by "test Christ" in the previous verse as it seems unclear how this would have happened in the cited Old Testament context.)
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