What does 1 Corinthians 11:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken."
Verse 21. _EVERY ONE TAKETH BEFORE - HIS OWN SUPPER_] They had a grand feast, though the different sects kept in parties by themselves; but all took as ample a supper as they could provide, (each brin...
FOR IN EATING - When you eat, having professedly come together to observe this ordinance. In order to understand this, it seems necessary to suppose that they had in some way made the Lord’s supper ei...
II. THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST: CHAPTER S 11-14 1. Headship, and the Position of Woman. The Lord's Supper. CHAPTER 11. _ 1. The Headship of Christ and of the Man; Position of Woman. (1 Corinthi...
1 Corinthians 11:7. THE DESECRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. Paul feels that in one respect he must restrict his praise. Their meetings damage rather than profit them. He cannot help believing part of wh...
THE LIMITS OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM (1 Corinthians 10:23-33 ; 1 Corinthians 11:1) 11:1 All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not buil...
EVERY. each. TAKETH BEFORE. first taketh. Greek. _prolambano._ Only here, Mark 14:8; Galatians 1:6; Galatians 1:1. Thus the over-indulgence of some unfitted them for the ordinance....
Disorders at the Lord's Supper 17. _Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not_ St Paul was able to praise the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11:2) for their attention to the injunctions he had...
DISORDERS AT THE LORD’S SUPPER...
_THE LORD'S SUPPER MADE INTO A COMMON MEAL 1 CORINTHIANS 11:17-22:_ The main thing in the Christian life is to keep our focus on the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins. This is accomplished through the L...
ΈΚΑΣΤΟΣ (G1538) каждый, каждый сам по себе. Не от Бога праздник, а от человека (Conzelmann). ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΆΝΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΛΑΜΒΆΝΩ (G4301) брать прежде. Прист. здесь имеет временное значение:...
EVERY ONE TAKETH BEFORE OTHER, &C.— This circumstance of their rapacious and indecent behaviour at their feasts is finely illustrated by a passage from Xenophon, _Memorab._ lib. 3 : 100: 41 in which h...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Oneness, a Requirement for Godly Worship (1 Corinthians 11:17-34) 17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for...
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. ONE TAKETH BEFORE OTHER - the rich "before" the poor, who had no supper of their own. Instead...
21 The phrase..the Lord's _ supper_ " is misleading. Supper denotes an _ evening _ meal, but the word here employed has no such significance, though its first observance was at night. The word denotes...
DISORDERS IN WORSHIP _2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church_ 2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from th...
SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 V1 Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. PROBLEMS ABOUT *WORSHIP 11:2-34 1. MEN AND WOMEN IN *WORSHIP 11:2-16 V2 I praise you because...
FOR. — Here follows a description of the conduct and mode of proceeding at this feast, which renders it impossible, as stated in 1 Corinthians 11:20, for it to be a Lord’s Supper. Every one greedily s...
CHAPTER 17 ABUSE OF THE LORD'S SUPPER IN this paragraph of his letter Paul speaks of an abuse which can scarcely be credited, still less tolerated, in our times. The most sacred of all Christian ord...
§ 37. THE CHURCH MEETING FOR THE WORSE. The Cor [1665] Church had written self-complacently, expecting the Apostle's commendation upon its report (1 Corinthians 11:2). In reply P. has just pointed out...
UNITY AND ORDER IN PUBLIC ASSEMBLY 1 Corinthians 11:11 The _power_ on a woman's head in 1 Corinthians 11:10 probably refers to the veil or covering which the Grecian woman assumed at marriage as the...
Another Corinthian question concerned the position of woman and her true attitude in the exercise of divinely bestowed gifts. He declared that woman's true position is subservience to man. The nature...
Problems In Coming Together Paul thought the very act of Christians coming together should encourage unity and spiritual development. Paul said the Corinthians were failing in that and reprimanded th...
For in eating every one taketh (h) before [other] his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. (h) Eats his food and does not wait until others come....
Every one taketh before his own supper to eat. The sense seems to be, that he took and brought with him, what he designed to eat with others, and give at that supper: but as soon as some were met (wit...
VIII. DISORDERS IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. 11:17-34. The disorder which Paul has just described and combated was a small matter in comparison with that to which he now passes. The style...
(17) Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. (18) For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be...
As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...
21._For every one of you taketh before others his own supper. _It is truly wonderful, and next to a miracle, (656) that Satan could have accomplished so much in so short a time. We are, however, admon...
Observe here the way in which the apostle grounded his replies with regard to details on the highest and fundamental principles. This is the manner of Christianity (compare Titus 2:10-14). He introduc...
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, shou...
For in eating every one taketh before _other_ his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken. Ver. 21. _Every one taketh_] Eateth and communicateth with those of his own sect and faction o...
_When ye come together therefore_ In such a manner as you do; _into one place_ Under pretence of celebrating the holy ordinance of the eucharist, and have such strife and contention among you, and act...
EVERY ONE TAKETH BEFORE THE OTHER; in connection with the Lord's supper they had a collation, consisting of what each one brought from his own home. This ought to have been shared by the poor equally...
Unseemly behavior in public worship:...
Chapter s 11 to 14 no longer consider the question of testimony or conduct as before the world, but rather the conduct, order, unity that is becoming in the Assembly, the body of Christ. Yet this is i...
FOR IN YOUR EATING EACH ONE TAKETH BEFORE OTHER HIS OWN SUPPER; AND ONE IS HUNGRY, AND ANOTHER IS DRUNKEN. 'for' -Paul's last statement is justified. No, what they were eating was not the Lord's Sup...
17-22 The apostle rebukes the disorders in their partaking of the Lord's supper. The ordinances of Christ, if they do not make us better, will be apt to make us worse. If the use of them does not men...
OLBGrk; There was at this time in most of the Christian church a Jewish party, viz. such as were converted from Judaism to Christianity, and had a tang of the old cask, being too tenacious of some Jew...
for in your eating each one taketh before other his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. [This verse is an indictment with three counts. There could be no communion supper when: 1. T...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame those who have not? "[35]...
1 Corinthians 11:21 For G1063 in G1722 eating G5315 (G5629) one G1538 takes G4301 own G2398 supper G1173 of G4301 (G5719) and G2532 one G3739 G3303 hungry G3983 (G5719) and G1161 another G3739 drunk G...
APPROACH TO WORSHIP (11:2-14:40). We now move on to a section which deals with the Christian approach to worship in the light of the particular problems of the Corinthian church. Chapter 11 covers the...
The immediate object of this section is to denounce certain gross disorders in the celebration of this ordinance which had crept into the Corinthian church; but this gives occasion to so comprehensive...
TAKETH BEFORE (προλαμβανε). Before others. Old verb to take before others. It was conduct like this that led to the complete separation between the Love-feast and the Lord's Supper. It was not even...
The members of the church at Corinth abounded in gifts, and therefore they thought it meet for each one to speak to edification. They had no pastoral oversight whatever; acting, in this respect, like...
CONTENTS: Christian order and the Lord's supper. Meaning of the Lord's table. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Lord's supper is a memorial of His finished atonement, a parable of His p...
1 Corinthians 11:2. _Keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you._ The apostle mentions these twice to the Thessalonians, and nearly in the same words. 2 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Thessalonians 3:6. W...
FOR AS YOU EAT. _Johnson_ says: "It was customary in Corinth to eat a meal together as did CHRIST and his disciples the night of the Lord's Supper. After this came the Lord's Supper. At this MEAL EACH...
_Now … I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse._ UNPROFITABLE PUBLIC WORSHIP I. When do we come together, not for the better, but for the worse? This may be kno...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 11:2 Divisions over Corporate Worship. Paul addresses issues related to the Corinthians’ behavior in worship. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img...
CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER The Apostle proceeds to deal with the third point put before him, that of the veiling of women; for the Corinthians had asked of S. Paul whether or no women ought...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ NEW TOPIC: THE LORD’S SUPPER AND THE LOVE-FEASTS 1 Corinthians 11:17.—_Backward_ reference: _the directions just given_, and the general praise of 1 Corinthians 11:2, are not to be...
EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 11:1 FOLLOWERS OF ME; rather, _imitators of me; _follow herein my example, as I follow Christ's. What Christ's example was, in that he too "pleased not himself," he sets fo...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians 11. Paul here in the first verse said, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). In the previous verse he spoke about...
1 Corinthians 10:16; 1 Corinthians 11:23; 2 Peter 2:13; Jude 1:12...
Taketh before other. Not waiting for the coming of the poor to participate....
THE LORD'S SUPPER 1 Corinthians 11:20 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Circumstances under which the Supper was inaugurated. 1. Christ knew He would die. 2. After the Passover passed away the Supper came in....
For in eating what ye call the Lord's supper, instead of all partaking of one bread, each person brings his own supper, and eats it without staying for the rest. And hereby the poor, who cannot provid...
Here our apostle begins to reprove the Corinthians for the abuses found in their love-feasts. These love-feasts were founded on no express command in holy writ, but only on the custom of the church, w...