For first of all Either (1) we must take this to apply to this and the next verse, find the second cause of blame to commence with 1 Corinthians 11:20, or (2) we must regard it as applying to the whole of this chapter, and then the next cause of blame will be the abuse of spiritual gifts, which is treated of in Chapter s 12 14. The latter is the more probable, for many of the commentators seem to have been misled by the technical theological sense which was attached to the words schismand heresyin later ages, a sense which seems to have been unknown to the Apostle. The divisions of which the Apostle speaks seem to have been social and personal rather than theological or ecclesiastical. See note on 1 Corinthians 11:21.

in the church Not the building, for there were no churchesin the sense of buildings devoted to Christian worship then, but in the assembly.

divisions Margin, schisms. Wiclif and Tyndale better, dissencion. Dissidia, Calvin. Vulgate, scissuras. See note on ch. 1 Corinthians 1:10.

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