The Foundational Meaning of ‘Rock’ in the Old Testament

Thanks for joining our discussion about a topic that “called” me after I heard a New Testament verse read in church last Sunday. Written by St. Paul, the verse referenced a miraculous incident that occurred when Moses led the people of Israel through the desert after they fled their Egyptian oppressors:

“They [Israelites] were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ” (1 Corinthians 10:2-4).

The word “rock” prompts me to write about its meaning in the Old Testament and next week in the New.

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