1 Corinthians 11:20

into one place Literally, to (or at) the same place. See Acts 1:15; Acts 2:1; Acts 3:1, and ch. 1 Corinthians 7:5 of this Epistle. It is the only phrase which we find applied to the placeof the Christian assembly. See note on 1 Corinthians 11:18.

this is not to eat the Lord's supper Better, perhaps, it is not to eat a supper of the Lord's Institution. The absence of the article, the apparent antithesis between a supper of Christ's and a supper of one's own devising, and the presence of the article in Revelation 1:10 (the Lord's Day), confirm this rendering. It is not merely that the conduct of the Corinthian Christians was inconsistent with taking" part in the Sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood, but that it was in no sense a supper of Christ's institution of which they partook. "The question arose," says Dean Stanley, "whether the majesty, the tenderness, the awe of the feast should be lost in a senseless orgy."