In the following instructions, however. He cannot praise their attitude. Actually do more harm. One purpose of their church meetings was to unite them more closely to the Lord, and to each other. But their church meetings were disrupted by "feuding and fussing"
Verse 17. _NOW IN THIS - I PRAISE YOU NOT_] In the beginning of this epistle the apostle did _praise_ them for their attention in general to the rules he had laid down, see 1 Corinthians 11:2; but he...
NOW IN THIS THAT I DECLARE - In this that I am about to state to you; to wit, your conduct in regard to the Lord’s Supper. Why this subject is introduced here is not very apparent. The connection may...
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...
When I give you this instruction, I am not praising you, because when you meet together it is actually doing you more harm than good. Firstly, I hear that when you meet together in assembly, there are...
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...
IN THIS, &C. = declaring this. Greek. _parangello._ See Acts 1:4. COME TOGETHER. Greek. _sunerchomai._ This was. voluntary assembling, not the authoritative "being gathered to His name" of Matthew 18...
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...
ΠΑΡΑΓΓΈΛΛΩΝ ΟΥ̓Κ ἘΠΑΙΝΩ͂ אE. παραγγέλλω οὐκ ἐπαινῶν ACFG. Vulg. Peshito. So Lachmann and Tregelles. Westcott and Hort edit as text, but with marks of doubt. B has the participle in both places. 17. ΤΟ...
_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...
ΠΑΡΑΓΓΈΛΛΩΝ _praes. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΓΓΈΛΛΩ (G3853) передавать послание от одного к другому, объявлять, приказывать, повелевать. В особенности относится к приказам военачальника, которые пер...
_1 CORINTHIANS 11:17_.— We may observe from several passages in this epistle, that many Judaical customs had crept into the Corinthian church: this church being of St. Paul's own planting, who spent t...
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...
Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. IN THIS - which follows. I DECLARE - rather, 'I enjoin,' as the Greek [ parange...
32 It has been customary, in the study of "dispensational" truth, to divide the human race into "the Jew, the Gentile, and the church of God", and base the division on this passage. It is well, howeve...
11:17 prescribing (d-3) The Greek word is used in New Testament for 'charging,' or 'commanding.' see Matthew 10:5 ; Luke 5:14 , 'enjoined'; 1 Thessalonians 4:11 . praise, (e-16) See 'I praise' in ver...
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 the...
The Apostle had praised them (1 Corinthians 11:2) for keeping his instructions; and had gone on to instruct them further regarding the veiling of women, a subject he had probably not needed to mention...
PARAPHRASE. 'I wrote of praising you for keeping my ordinances, but I cannot praise you with regard to your Church meetings, which, as now conducted, do you more harm than good. (18) First I hear of t...
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...
NOW IN THIS THAT I DECLARE UNTO YOU... — Better, _Now I give you this command, while not praising you that you come together not for the better, but for the worse._ These words lead from the subject w...
CHAPTER 16 THE VEIL AT this point of the Epistle Paul passes from the topics regarding which the Corinthians had requested him to inform them, to make some remarks on the manner in which, as he had h...
If the T.R. be correct, τοῦτο (repeated in 1 Corinthians 11:22 _b_) points to the instruction about to be given respecting the Lord's Supper: “Moreover (δέ), in giving you this charge I do not praise...
§ 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 the...
(14) Now in this that I declare [unto you] I praise [you] not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. (14) He passes now to the next treatise concerning the right administration...
Now this I ordain, &c. St. Paul found that several abuses had crept in among the Corinthians at their Church meetings, where before the holy mysteries (though St. John Chrysostom thinks after them) th...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:12-19 . The idea of the whole passage is this: The denial of the resurrection of the dead draws with it that of Christ's resurrection, and thereby gives the lie to the apostolic test...
“Now in this that I command you I praise you not, that ye come together, not for the better, but for the worse.” There is evidently a contrast between this preface and the preamble to the foregoing pa...
(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...
His reproof of the fault previously noticed was but a mild and gentle admonition, because the Corinthians sinned in ignorance, so that it was proper that they should readily be forgiven. Paul, too, ha...
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...
NOW IN THIS THAT I DECLARE UNTO YOU,.... The Syriac version reads, "this is what I command"; which some refer to what he had been discoursing of, adding to his arguments, and the examples of the churc...
Now in this that I declare _unto you_ I praise _you_ not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. Ver. 17. _I praise you not_] _q.d._ I discommend and dispraise you. The Corinthi...
_Now in this that I_ am about to _declare unto you, I praise you not_ I cannot commend some, as I have done others, (1 Corinthians 11:2,) for other things; _that ye come together_ Frequently, and even...
IN THIS; what he was about to mention....
Unseemly behavior in public worship:...
NOW IN THIS THAT I DECLARE UNTO YOU I PRAISE YOU NOT, THAT YE COME TOGETHER NOT FOR THE BETTER, BUT FOR THE WORSE....
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...
BUT IN GIVING YOU THIS CHARGE,. PRAISE YOU NOT, THAT YE COME TOGETHER NOT FOR THE BETTER BUT FOR THE WORSE. 'in giving you this charge' -'this instruction' (NASV). 'It can refer to the instructions...
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...
NOW IN THIS THAT I DECLARE UNTO YOU I PRAISE YOU NOT; I come now to another thing of greater consequence, as to which I must much blame you; I am so far from being able to commend or approve of what y...
But in giving you this charge, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better but for the worse. [Their church services, which were intended for their development, had become so corrupted...
A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop "Do I praise you? In this I praise you not; that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse."[51]...
1 Corinthians 11:17 Now G1161 giving G3853 these G5124 instructions G3853 (G5723) not G3756 praise G1867 ...
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...
CRITICISMS AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO THE LORD'S SUPPER IN CHURCH WORSHIP (11:17-33). But Paul's dissatisfaction goes beyond just the covering of the hair and lack of restraint while praying and...
'But in giving you this charge, I do not praise you, that you come together not for the better but for the worse.' Having deliberately praised them in 1 Corinthians 11:2 he now points out that he cann...
1 Corinthians 11:17. BUT IN GIVING YOU THIS CHARGE, I PRAISE you NOT, [1] THAT YE COME TOGETHER NOT FOR THE BETTER, BUT FOR THE WORSE. The “charge” or “command” is not what went before (as most modern...
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...
THIS (τουτο). Probably the preceding one about the head-dress of women, and transition to what follows.I PRAISE YOU NOT (ουκ επαινω). In contrast to the praise in 1 Corinthians 11:2.FOR THE BETTE...
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 pr...
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
_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 11:17 The Corinthians were using their gatherings around the Lord’s Table as occasions to make social distinctions between rich and poor. Paul is profoundly trouble...
1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 11:2 Divisions over Corporate Worship. Paul addresses issues related to the Corinthians’ behavior in worship....
_Now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not_, &c. This is the fourth reason why women should be veiled, drawn from nature itself, which has given woman hair for a covering, to teach her tha...
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 t...
_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 t...
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 for...
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 h...
1 Corinthians 11:2; 1 Corinthians 11:20; 1 Corinthians 11:22; 1 Corinthians 11:34;...
I declare [π α ρ α γ γ ε λ λ ω]. Wrong. It means in the New Testament only command. See on Luke 5:14; Acts 1:4....
Our apostle here enters upon. new argument or subject-matter of discourse; namely, to reprove the abuses which were crept in amongst them, in their administration of the holy sacrament of the Lord's s...