“ For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. ”
For this cause - On account of the improper manner of celebrating the Lord’s Supper; see 1 Corinthians 11:21 . Many are weak - ( ἀσθενεῖς astheneis). Evidently referring to prevailing b...
(21) For this cause many [are] weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. (21) The profaning of the body and blood of the Lord in his mysteries is harshly punished by him, and therefore such wrongs...
1 Corinthians 11:7-34 . 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 pa...
many . not. few, as Revised Version. sleep . App-171. This verse explains what the judgment of 1 Corinthians 11:29 was. Temporal suffering, and even death. Compare 1 Corinthians 5:5 and 1 Joh...
30. For this cause, etc. After having treated in a general way of unworthy eating, and of the kind of punishment that awaits those who pollute this sacrament, he now instructs the Corinthia...
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For this cause - That they partook of this sacred ordinance without discerning the Lord's body; many are weak and sickly: it is ha...
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. Weak and sickly. The "weak" х astheneis ( G772 )] have naturally no strength; the "sickly" х arroostoi ( G732 )] ha...
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...
(28-32) There are so many modifications required in these verses of the Greek text from which our translation is taken, so as to bring it into harmony with the best MSS., and so many changes needed i...
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...
Observing the Lord's Supper 1 Corinthians 11:23-34 There was much disorder in the Corinthian church, because the love-feast, which preceded the Holy Supper, was the scene of riot and conviviali...
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...
(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 b...
For this cause many are weak and sickly ,.... Because of their unworthy participation of the Lord's supper, many in the Corinthian church were attended with bodily infirmities and diseases; either b...
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. Ver. 30. Many are weak ] The mortality at Corinth began at God's house, and that for unworthy communicating. God will be sanct...
But That none may be involved in such guilt; let each one examine himself Whether he knows the nature and the design of the institution, and whether it be his sincere desire and purpose thoroug...
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...
Design of the Lord's Supper. A. D. 57. 23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I...
You, it may be, are not aware of it, but look upon other causes why so many amongst you are sick, and weak, and die immaturely; but I, as the apostle of Jesus Christ, (and so know the mind and will o...
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...
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 t...
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 11:2 . 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...
Whosoever shall eat … and drink … unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. Eating and drinking unworthily I. The sin consists in doing it-- 1. Ignorantly. 2. Irrevere...
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,"...
For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:32 ; 1 Corinthians 15:51 ; 1 Kings 13:21-24 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:14 ; 2 Samuel 12:14-18 ; Acts 13:36 ; Amos 3:2 ; Exodus 15:26 ; Hebrews 12:5-11 ; Numbers 20:12 ; Numbers 2...
For this cause — Which they had not observed. Many sleep — In death.