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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. “Judgment” or “condemnation” is the word in the original, not “damnation.” That is not a fair translation, neither does it express the truth....
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, — We are all unworthy to come to the table of our Lord; who among us can possibly be thought to be worthy to come to such a feast as this? But the apostle is writing concerning those who came there carelessly, or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But let a man examine himself, Let a man look himself up and down, as a lawyer cross-questions a witness, as a man examines money to see whether it has the true ring of gold about it; or not: “Let a man examine himself.” 1Co_11:28. And so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. Let him come as a true believer, as sincere; if not perfect,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily,.... As before explained, 1 Corinthians 11:27 "eateth and drinketh damnation to himself"; or guilt, or judgment, or condemnation; for by either may the word be rendered; nor is eternal damnation here meant; but with respect to the Lord's own people, who may through unbelief, the weakness of grace, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, earth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. “Eateth and drinketh judgment to himself,” for “judgment” is the word here used by the apostle.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Eateth and drinketh “condemnation” to himself, — For that is how the word should be rendered, —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Not discerning the Lord’s body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. God is always carrying out a system of discipline in his Church. To a large extent, he lets the world, for the present, sin, as it pleases; but in his own family he uses the rod; and when the Lord’s supper is dishonoured, there is no doubt that the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For he that eateth, and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. He does not see the meaning of the emblem of Christ’s death.. He degrades the symbol by making it take the place of the thing signified. He sees the bread, but not the body; and he damnifies himself, condemns himself, by such...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For this cause many are weak and sickly,.... Because of their unworthy participation of the Lord's supper, many in the Corinthian church were attended with bodily infirmities and diseases; either by way of fatherly chastisement and correction in such who were truly the Lord's people, though they had behaved unworthily; or by way of punishment to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. It appears that God visited this church at Corinth with sickness, and took away many of the members by death, because they had profaned the Lord’s table, and had walked in a disorderly manner before him. Paul did not mean to say that these persons were lost; but he intended to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Believers, who are rendered sick, or who even die, because of their offence against the Lord’s ordinance, are not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. There is no doubt that God visited upon the Corinthians, in the way of chastisement, their want of reverence at his table; many were weak and sickly among them, and many died. They were not lost if they were believers in Christ, but the church at Corinth sustained a great loss...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
“For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.” Many even die; — not that they are lost, — not that this sickness is sent as a curse, but as fatherly chastisement; and the death of many of its members is often a chastisement to the church which is thus weakened by losing its best helpers.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. Persons coming to the Lord’s table in an improper spirit are very apt to come under God’s discipline; some will be taken ill; and some will die. This discipline is being carried on in every true church of God. God’s providence will work in this way if many treat the table of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For if we would judge ourselves,.... Examine, try, and prove ourselves as above directed, before we eat and drink; or condemn ourselves, by confessing, acknowledging, and mourning over sin, and by repentance for it; or separate ourselves from the company of profane sinners, come out from among them, and touch not their unclean things; or join with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. So, you see, that chastening process, which is going on in the church, is all in love: “that we should not be condemned with the world;” just as a father exercises discipline in his...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when a church has lost its conscience, and gets into such a state as this Corinthian church fell into, then, as it does not judge itself, God judges it, and chastens it severely.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another. And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. If we are God’s people, we shall be judged by him here for our wrongdoing. We shall not be like the world that is left to the day of judgment; but we shall be judged now. God will visit with temporal judgments those of his children who sin against him.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But when we are judged,.... This is said by way of consolation to the saints, that when the hand of the Lord is upon them, and he is afflicting them, they should consider these things, not as the effects of his vindictive wrath and justice, as proper punishments for their sins, but as fatherly chastisements for their good: we are chastened of the...