For if we would judge ourselves Perhaps better, with Dean Stanley, if we had judged ourselves, these judgments(i.e. weakness, sickness, death) would not have fallen upon us(though the rendering in the text is grammatically accurate). Such consequences are surely serious enough to make any one hesitate to trifle with so solemn an ordinance. The word here translated judgeis the same as that rendered discernin 1 Corinthians 11:29. Here it means to pass a thoroughand therefore an accurate judgment, Tyndale renders rightly judged. Richteten, Luther. Wiclif and the Vulgate as before.

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