Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 11:27

draws the practical consequence of 1 Corinthians 11:20-26, stating the judgement upon Cor [1767] behaviour at the Supper that a right estimate of the covenant-cup and bread demands: “So then, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily, will be held guilty (ἔνοχος ἔσται; reus tenetur, Bz [1768]; rather, tene-bitur) of the body and blood of the Lord”; it is this that he ignores or insults; cf. 1 Corinthians 11:29. On ὥστε with ind [1769], see note to 1 Corinthians 3:7. What “unworthily” means is patent from 1 Corinthians 11:20 ff. The or, for and, between ἐσθίῃ and πίνῃ supplies the single text adducible for the R.C [1770] practice of lay communion in one kind : “non leve argumentum,” says Est., “non enim sic loqueretur Ap., si non sentiret unam speciem sine altera sumi posse”. But and appeared in just the same connexion in 1 Corinthians 11:26, and reappears in 1 Corinthians 11:28 f.; “or” replaces “and” when one is thinking of the parl [1771] acts distinctly, and the same communicant might behave unworthily in either act, esp. as the breaking of the bread and taking of the cup at this time came in probably at the beginning and end respectively of the Church Supper, and were separated by an interval of time; see notes on εὐχαριστήσας and μετὰ τ. δειπν. (1 Corinthians 11:24 f.). ἔνοχος (from ἐν - έχω, to hold in some liability) acquires in late Gr [1772], like αἴτιος, a gen [1773] of person against whom offence is committed; see Ed [1774] in loc. To outrage the emblem is to outrage its original as if one should mock at the Queen's picture or at his country's flag. Except ἔλθῃ, the vbs. throughout this passage are pr [1775] in tense, relating to habit.

[1767] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.

[1768] Beza's Nov. Testamentum: Interpretatio et Annotationes (Cantab., 1642).

[1769] indicative mood.

[1770].C. Roman Catholic.

[1771] parallel.

[1772] Greek, or Grotius' Annotationes in N.T.

[1773] genitive case.

[1774] T. C. Edwards' Commentary on the First Ep. to the Corinthians. 2

[1775] present tense.

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