Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 10:11

"Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come." — 1 Corinthians 10:11 (ASV)

Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples:

They were like a book in which we might read our own history in large characters. We see ourselves foreshadowed in them, and we read our happiness or our misery in their behavior.