1 Corinthians 11:2
I praise you — The greater part of you.... [ Continue Reading ]
I praise you — The greater part of you.... [ Continue Reading ]
I would have you know — He does not seem to have given them any order before concerning this. The head of every man — Particularly every believer. Is Christ, and the head of Christ is God — Christ, as he is Mediator, acts in all things subordinately to his Father. But we can no more infer that they... [ Continue Reading ]
Every man praying or prophesying — Speaking by the immediate power of God. With his head — And face. Covered — Either with a veil or with long hair. Dishonoureth his head — St. Paul seems to mean, As in these eastern nations veiling the head is a badge of subjection, so a man who prays or prophesies... [ Continue Reading ]
But every woman — Who, under an immediate impulse of the Spirit, (for then only was a woman suffered to speak in the church,) prays or prophesies without a veil on her face, as it were disclaims subjection, and reflects dishonour on man, her head. For it is the same, in effect, as if she cut her hai... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore if a woman is not covered — If she will throw off the badge of subjection, let her appear with her hair cut like a man's. But if it be shameful far a woman to appear thus in public, especially in a religious assembly, let her, for the same reason, keep on her veil.... [ Continue Reading ]
A man indeed ought not to veil his head, because he is the image of God — In the dominion he bears over the creation, representing the supreme dominion of God, which is his glory. But the woman is only matter of glory to the man, who has a becoming dominion over her. Therefore she ought not to appea... [ Continue Reading ]
The man is not — In the first production of nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
For this cause also a woman ought to be veiled in the public assemblies, because of the angels — Who attend there, and before whom they should be careful not to do anything indecent or irregular.... [ Continue Reading ]
Nevertheless in the Lord Jesus, there is neither male nor female — Neither is excluded; neither is preferred before the other in his kingdom.... [ Continue Reading ]
And as the woman was at first taken out of the man, so also the man is now, in the ordinary course of nature, by the woman; but all things are of God — The man, the woman, and their dependence on each other.... [ Continue Reading ]
Judge of yourselves — For what need of more arguments if so plain a case? Is it decent for a woman to pray to God — The Most High, with that bold and undaunted air which she must have, when, contrary to universal custom, she appears in public with her head uncovered?... [ Continue Reading ]
For a man to have long hair, carefully adjusted, is such a mark of effeminacy as is a disgrace to him.... [ Continue Reading ]
Given her — Originally, before the arts of dress were in being.... [ Continue Reading ]
We have no such custom here, nor any of the other churches of God — The several churches that were in the apostles' time had different customs in things that were not essential; and that under one and the same apostle, as circumstances, in different places, made it convenient. And in all things mere... [ Continue Reading ]
In the church — In the public assembly. I hear there are schisms among you; and I partly believe it — That is, I believe it of some of you. It is plain that by schisms is not meant any separation from the church, but uncharitable divisions in it; for the Corinthians continued to be one church; and,... [ Continue Reading ]
There must be heresies — Divisions. Among you — In the ordinary course of things; and God permits them, that it may appear who among you are, and who are not, upright of heart.... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore — That is, in consequence of those schisms. It is not eating the Lord's supper — That solemn memorial of his death; but quite another thing.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 provide for themselves, have nothing; while the rich eat and drink to the full just as the heathens use to... [ Continue Reading ]
Have ye not houses to eat and drink your common meals in? or do ye despise the church of God — Of which the poor are both the larger and the better part. Do ye act thus in designed contempt of them?... [ Continue Reading ]
I received — By an immediate revelation.... [ Continue Reading ]
This is my body, which is broken for you — That is, this broken bread is the sign of my body, which is even now to be pierced and wounded for your iniquities. Take then, and eat of, this bread, in an humble, thankful, obediential remembrance of my dying love; of the extremity of my sufferings on you... [ Continue Reading ]
After supper — Therefore ye ought not to confound this with a common meal. Do this in remembrance of me — The ancient sacrifices were in remembrance of sin: this sacrifice, once offered, is still represented in remembrance of the remission of sins.... [ Continue Reading ]
Ye show forth the Lord's death — Ye proclaim, as it were, and openly avow it to God, and to all the world. Till he come — In glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
Whosoever shall eat this bread unworthily — That is, in an unworthy, irreverent manner; without regarding either Him that appointed it, or the design of its appointment. Shall be guilty of profaning that which represents the body and blood of the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
But let a man examine himself — Whether he know the nature and the design of the institution, and whether it be his own desire and purpose throughly to comply therewith.... [ Continue Reading ]
For he that eateth and drinketh so unworthily as those Corinthians did, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself — Temporal judgments of various kinds, 1 Corinthians 11:30. Not distinguishing the sacred tokens of the Lord's body — From his common food.... [ Continue Reading ]
For this cause — Which they had not observed. Many sleep — In death.... [ Continue Reading ]
If we would judge ourselves — As to our knowledge, and the design with which we approach the Lord's table. We should not be thus judged — That is, punished by God.... [ Continue Reading ]
When we are thus judged, it is with this merciful design, that we may not be finally condemned with the world.... [ Continue Reading ]
The rest — The other circumstances relating to the Lord's supper.... [ Continue Reading ]