For. — Here follows a description of the conduct and mode of proceeding at this feast, which renders it impossible, as stated in 1 Corinthians 11:20, for it to be a Lord’s Supper. Every one greedily seizes (takes before distribution is made) what he has brought with him, and appropriates it to his own individual use, instead of making it a contribution to the general and common supply. Every one comes to eat his own supper, and not the Lord’s Supper. And the result is that while some poor man, who has not been able to bring enough for himself, remains unfed, some rich man, drinking the wine which he brought, and which he has not shared with others, is drunken. (See Note on 1 Corinthians 11:34.)
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1 Corinthians 11:21
21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.