Ambrosiaster : Those who were destroyed prefigured Judas, who betrayed Christ and was eliminated from the number of the apostles by the judgment of God.. — COMMENTARY ON PAUL'S EPISTLES John Chrysostom : "Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer." For what is required is not only to suffer for Christ, but also nobly to bear the things that come on us, and with all gladness: since this is the nature of every crown. Yea, and unless this be so, punishment rather will attend men who take calamity with a bad grace. Wherefore, both the Apostles when they were beaten rejoiced, and Paul gloried in his sufferings. — Homily on 1 Corinthians 23 Theodoret of Cyrus : Some of the Corinthians were grumbling that they had only received the lesser spiritual gifts, when they wanted them all. — COMMENTARY ON THE FIRST EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS 227