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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For first of all, when ye come together in the church,.... The place where the church met together to perform divine service, called "one place". 1 Corinthians 11:20 and is distinguished from their own "houses", 1 Corinthians 11:22 and the first thing he took notice of as worthy of dispraise and reproof, in their religious assemblies, were their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. It was very gracious and kind on the apostle’s part to put it so mildly, and he sets us the example of not believing anything against our brethren too quickly: “I partly believe it.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For there must be also heresies among you.... This is a reason why he was ready to believe there might be something of truth in the report he had received of the divisions among them; for if there were heresies, false doctrines, and bad principles, among them, such as were subversive of the fundamentals of Christianity, as the denial of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They seem to have regarded it as a common feast, to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
When ye come together therefore into one place,.... Though επιτοαυτο does not signify so much the unity of the place, as of the persons meeting together, and their conjunction; so the phrase is used by the Septuagint, in Deuteronomy 25:11, yet it supposes a place where the church were wont to assemble for divine worship; this is not to eat the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. Merely meeting together, each person bringing his or her own portion of bread and wine, and each one eating the provided portion, was not celebrating the Lord’s supper.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They seem to have brought their own provisions to the assembly, and to have made a feast thereof, and they even thought that was an observance of the Lord’s...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another is drunken. They had such low notions of the communion that they seemed to think that, if they ate together, each one bringing his own provision, they would be celebrating...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. These Corinthians had fallen into a very queer state. I do not think that any Baptist Church that I have ever known of has acted in this fashion; but when...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For in eating,.... Not at the Lord's table, but at tables spread for them in the place of divine worship, where everyone brought his own food, under a pretence that others, particularly the poor, should eat with him; but instead of that, he sat down and ate it himself, and would not stay till the rest came, to eat together: but everyone taketh...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. Bad as some professing Christians are even now, they are not so bad as these Corinthians were. One was hungry, and another was drunken, because they had turned the holy feast into a kind of banquet of a most disorderly sort. There was nothing in...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
What? have ye not houses to eat and drink in?.... This shows that one taking his supper before another, was not in their own houses, before they came to the place of divine worship, but in the house of God; and the apostle suggests, that if they must have their ante-suppers, and were disposed to eat and drink freely, before they partook of the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in these? I praise you not. No doubt they hoped to be praised, and expected that they had done everything in the right way; perhaps, they even believed that they were acting under the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. The Lord’s supper is not to be made an opportunity for eating and drinking in disorderly self-enjoyment. It is a hallowed and holy institution, setting forth the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, — “Do you think that, as a nominally Christian assembly, you are constituted merely that you may eat and drink? ‘What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God,’” — 1Co_11:22. And shame them that have not? “Making the poor who come...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, — “And therefore you ought not to have gone astray. I told you how to observe this ordinance, so you have wilfully erred. This is what I delivered unto you,” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you?shall I praise you in this? I praise you not. They may not have meant to do so ill, but they had fallen into all sorts of disorder, and Paul therefore first rebuked them, and then explained to them the right...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? There is your proper place if you want a meal. Go home, and eat and drink; do not come to the sanctuary for such a purpose: “Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in?” 1Co_11:22. Or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For I have received of the Lord,.... The apostle observes unto them the rule, use, and end of the Lord's supper; his view in it is, to correct the disorders among them, and to bring them to a strict regard to the rule which had such a divine authority stamped upon it; and to observe to them, that in that supper all equally ate and drank; and that...