Geneva Study Bible Commentary
1 Corinthians 11:20
When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is (g) not to eat the Lord's supper.
(g) This is a usual metaphor by which the apostle flatly denies that which many did not do well.
When ye come together therefore into one place, [this] is (g) not to eat the Lord's supper.
(g) This is a usual metaphor by which the apostle flatly denies that which many did not do well.
Verse 20. THIS _IS NOT TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER._] They did not come together to eat the Lord's Supper _exclusively_, which they should have done, and not have made it a _part_ of an ordinary meal....
WHEN YE COME TOGETHER THEREFORE ... - When you are assembled as a church, compare Hebrews 10:25, and see the note on Acts 2:1. Christians were constantly in the habit of assembling for public worship....
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...
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...
INTO ONE PLACE. Greek. _epi to auto._ See Acts 2:1. These were the social meals of the early church, called love feasts (2 Peter 2:13.Jude 1:12; Jude 1:12), followed
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...
_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 onl
ΟΥ̓͂Ν. Meyer points out that this word, coupled with the marked repetition of συνερχομένων, proves that the πρῶτον μέν of 1 Corinthians 11:18 refers to the disorders in the Christian assembly. ἘΠῚ ΤῸ...
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...
ΣΥΝΕΡΧΟΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΣΥΝΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G4905) приходить вместе. _Gen. abs._ ΟΎΝ (G3767) следовательно, затем, теперь. Это слово указывает на развитие темы от одной фразы к другой или...
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...
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. WHEN ... THEREFORE - resuming the thread of discourse (). THIS IS NOT TO. It is not possible to eat a true Lo...
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...
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...
_THIS IS_ NOT TO EAT] RV 'it is not possible to eat.' Their selfishness (1 Corinthians 11:21) was fatal to the proper spirit of devotion and brotherly love; it became no more than an ordinary meal. TH...
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...
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...
WHEN YE COME TOGETHER THEREFORE INTO ONE PLACE, THIS IS NOT TO EAT THE LORD’S SUPPER. — Better, _Therefore, when you assemble in the same place, it is not to eat the supper dedicated to the Lord._ Reg...
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 ordi...
§ 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...
1 Corinthians 11:20-21 resume with emphasis the circumstantial clause of 1 Corinthians 11:18 and draw out, by οὖν, the disastrous issue of the σχίσματα : they produce _a visible separation at the comm...
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...
_The Lord's supper. So the apostle here calls the charity [Agape] feasts observed by the primitive Christians; and reprehends the abuses of the Corinthians on these occasions: which were the more crim...
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...
“When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's Supper. 21. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, while the other is full.” On t...
(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...
20._This is not to eat the Lord’s supper _He now reproves the abuse that had crept in among the Corinthians as to the Lord’s Supper, in respect of their mixing up profane banquets with the sacred and...
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...
WHEN YE COME TOGETHER THEREFORE INTO ONE PLACE,.... Though επι το αυτο does not signify so much the unity of the place, as of the persons meeting together, and their conjunction; so the phrase is use...
When ye come together therefore into one place, _this_ is not to eat the Lord's supper. Ver. 20. _This is not to eat, &c._] When the Lord's supper therefore is not rightly administered, it is no long...
_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...
THIS IS NOT TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER; such a mode of procedure cannot be a true eating of the Lord's supper; you cannot thus eat it in a proper or acceptable manner....
WHEN YE COME TOGETHER, THEREFORE, INTO ONE PLACE, THIS IS NOT TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER....
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...
NOT TO EAT: Or, ye cannot eat...
WHEN THEREFORE YE ASSEMBLE YOURSELVES TOGETHER, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER: 'it is not possible' -'it is not to eat the Lord's Supper' (NASV) They would of claimed that they were e...
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...
The Greek words do not necessarily signify _into one place, _ they may as well be translated, for the same thing, and possibly that were the better translation of them in this place; divisions appeari...
When therefore ye assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper [The Lord's Supper is a spiritual feast. It is a feast of love, union and communion in and with Christ, and...
Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book II But always must we conduct ourselves as in the Lord's presence, lest He say to us, as the apostle in indignation said to the Corinthians, "When ye come to...
1 Corinthians 11:20 Therefore G3767 you G5216 together G4905 (G5740) in G1909 place G846 is G2076 (G5748
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...
'When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not possible to eat the Lord's supper, for in your eating each one takes before the other his own supper. And one is hungry, and another is drun...
1 Corinthians 11:20. WHEN THEREFORE YE ASSEMBLE YOURSELVES TOGETHER, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER....
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...
TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER (Κυριακον δειπνον φαγειν). Κυριακος, adjective from Κυριος, belonging to or pertaining to the Lord, is not just a biblical or ecclesiastical word, for it is found in the ins...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another i...
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...
1 Corinthians 11:18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they whic...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper._ Merely meeting together, each person bringing his or her own portion of bread and wine, an...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...
1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...
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
AS A GROUP. In scripture, the _church_ is NEVER the building, but always the _group_ of people. YOU DO NOT COME. When they came together as a group, normally they would first eat their fellowship meal...
_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....
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...
_When ye come together, therefore, into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper._ When you come together in this way to the Eucharist and the supper of the Lord, your supper is no longer that...
_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 11:20...
This is not [ο υ κ ε σ τ ι ν]. Rev., correctly, it is not possible. The Lord's Supper [κ υ ρ ι α κ ο ν δ ε ι π ν ο ν]. The emphasis is on Lord 's. Deipnon supper, represented the principal meal of the...
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....
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....
As if he had said, "True, ye Corinthians, when ye come together to one place, ye pretend to eat the Lord's supper, but though you eat it, yet ye do not eat it as ye ought to do; you perform the materi...