1 Corinthians 11:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. There be divisions among you - They had σχισματα, schisms, among them: the old parties were kept up, even in the place where they assembled to eat the Lord's Supper. The Paulians, the Kephites, and the Apollonians, continued to be distinct parties; and ate their meals separately, even in the same house.