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1 Corinthians 11:30

Weak and sickly. Physical visitations on account of profanation of the Lord's table.

Many sleep [κ ο ι μ ω ν τ α ι ι κ α ν ο ι]. The word for many means, primarily, adequate, sufficient. See on Romans 14:23. Rev., not a few hardly expresses the ominous shading of the word : quite enough have died. Sleep. Better, are sleeping. Here simply as a synonym for are dead, without the peculiar restful sense which christian sentiment so commonly conveys into it. See on Acts 7:60; 2 Peter 3:4.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 30. _FOR THIS CAUSE_] That they partook of this sacred ordinance without discerning the Lord's body; _many are weak and_ _sickly_: it is hard to say whether these words refer to the consequence...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 bodily sickness...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    II. THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST: CHAPTER S 11-14 1. Headship, and the Position of Woman. The Lord's Supper. CHAPTER 11. _ 1. The Headship of Christ and of the Man; Position of Woman. (1 Corinthi...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    1 Corinthians 11:7. 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 part of wh...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE LIMITS OF CHRISTIAN FREEDOM (1 Corinthians 10:23-33 ; 1 Corinthians 11:1) 11:1 All things are allowed to me, but all things are not good for me. All things are allowed, but all things do not buil...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    For I received of the Lord that which I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night on which he was being delivered up, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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 John 5:16;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Disorders at the Lord's Supper 17. _Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not_ St Paul was able to praise the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 11:2) for their attention to the injunctions he had...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _For this cause many are weak and sickly among you_ If the body be the temple of the Lord (ch. 1 Corinthians 6:19), we can well understand how a crime against His Body and Blood (1 Corinthians 11:27)...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἈΣΘΕΝΕΙ͂Σ ΚΑῚ ἌΡΡΩΣΤΟΙ. If the body be the temple of the Lord (ch. 1 Corinthians 6:19), we can well understand how a crime against His Body and Blood (1 Corinthians 11:27) would tend to deprive the bo...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    DISORDERS AT THE LORD’S SUPPER...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE LORD'S SUPPER OBSERVED INCORRECTLY 1 CORINTHIANS 11:27-34:_ The character of the person partaking is not under consideration but the manner in which it is done. The message is, "whosoever shall e...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΑΣΘΕΝΉΣ (G772) слабый, больной. Praed. _пот._ ΆΡΡΩΣΤΟΣ (G732) бессильный, расслабленный, больной. Praed. _пот._ Без артикля praed. _пот._ подчеркивает уеловие. ΚΟΙΜΏΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. pass. от_ ΚΟΙΜΆ...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 2 Oneness, a Requirement for Godly Worship (1 Corinthians 11:17-34) 17 But in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. WEAK AND SICKLY. The "weak" [ astheneis (G772)] have naturally no strength; the "sickly" [ arroostoi (G732)] have lost their stre...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    21 The phrase..the Lord's _ supper_ " is misleading. Supper denotes an _ evening _ meal, but the word here employed has no such significance, though its first observance was at night. The word denotes...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    FOR THIS CAUSE] Their irreverence had led God to punish them by disease and death (SLEEP, i.e. 'in death'). They had been visited with sickness, and St. Paul was enlightened by God to see in this the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARAPHRASE. 'I wrote of praising you for keeping my ordinances, but I cannot praise you with regard to your Church meetings, which, as now conducted, do you more harm than good. (18) First I hear of t...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    SERVANTS OF CHRIST 1 CORINTHIANS _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 11 V1 Imitate me, just as I imitate Christ. PROBLEMS ABOUT *WORSHIP 11:2-34 1. MEN AND WOMEN IN *WORSHIP 11:2-16 V2 I praise you because...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (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 in...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR THIS CAUSE — _i.e.,_ because you do not regard these feasts, to which the Lord’s Supper is joined as gatherings in a common body, but eat and drink to excess, and so gain no spiritual advantage, b...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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 ordi...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    § 38. UNWORTHY PARTICIPANTS OF THE LORD'S BREAD AND CUP. The behaviour of the wealthier Cor [1740] at the Church Supper is scandalous in itself; viewed in the light of the institution and meaning of t...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    In evidence of the “judgment” which profanation of the Lord's Table entails, the Ap. points to the sad fact that “amongst you many are sick and weakly, and not a few are sleeping”. ἀσθενεῖς applies to...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    OBSERVING THE LORD'S SUPPER 1 Corinthians 11:23 There was much disorder in the Corinthian church, because the love-feast, which preceded the Holy Supper, was the scene of riot and conviviality, of os...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Proper Attitude Is Required Paul stressed the need for the proper attitude in partaking of the Lord's Supper. Irreverence while partaking would have shown a light concern for the sacrifice being r...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (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 o...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Therefore in punishment of the sin of receiving unworthily, many are infirm, visited with infirmities, even that bring death, which is meant by those words, many sleep. But it is a mercy of God, when...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    VIII. DISORDERS IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE LORD'S SUPPER. 11:17-34. The disorder which Paul has just described and combated was a small matter in comparison with that to which he now passes. The style...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    “For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31. Now, if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 32. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we sho...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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 be...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    As usual, the introductory words (1 Corinthians 1:1-3) of the epistle give us no little intimation of that which is to follow. The apostle speaks of himself as such "called [to be] an apostle of Jesus...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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 Corinthians as to...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Observe here the way in which the apostle grounded his replies with regard to details on the highest and fundamental principles. This is the manner of Christianity (compare Titus 2:10-14). He introduc...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 by w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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 sanctifi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 thorough...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    FOR THIS CAUSE; on account of their irreverent and wicked manner of celebrating the Lord's supper. MANY SLEEP; are dead. God had sent sickness among them, and many had died....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A final admonition to use care in going to the Sacrament:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    FOR THIS CAUSE MANY ARE WEAK AND SICKLY AMONG YOU AND MANY SLEEP....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 i...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    FOR THIS CAUSE MANY AMONG YOU ARE WEAK AND SICKLY, AND NOT. FEW SLEEP. 'For this cause' -relates the conditions that follow to the improper partaking of the previous verses. Because of their abuse o...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-34 The apostle describes the sacred ordinance, of which he had the knowledge by revelation from Christ. As to the visible signs, these are the bread and wine. What is eaten is called bread, though...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 of...

  • McGarvey and Pendleton Commentaries

    For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. ["Not a few" indicates a larger number than the preceding "many." It is generally accepted that Paul here refers to physical wea...

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X The Apostle indeed says, writing to the Corinthians who had diverse sicknesses, "For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep."[171]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    1 Corinthians 11:30 For G1223 this G5124 reason G1223 many G4183 weak G772 and G2532 sick G732 among G1722

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    'For he who eats and drinks, eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he discern not the body. For this reason many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.' For all who come eating and drin...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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 the...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CRITICISMS AND INSTRUCTIONS WITH REGARD TO THE LORD'S SUPPER IN CHURCH WORSHIP (11:17-33). But Paul's dissatisfaction goes beyond just the covering of the hair and lack of restraint while praying and...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    The immediate object of this section is to denounce certain gross disorders in the celebration of this ordinance which had crept into the Corinthian church; but this gives occasion to so comprehensive...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    1 Corinthians 11:30. FOR THIS CAUSE MANY AMONG YOU ARE WEAK AND SICKLY, AND NOT A FEW FALL ASLEEP. Physical weakness, sickness, and death are undoubtedly meant here. Possibly some marked calamitous vi...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    AND NOT A FEW SLEEP (κα κοιμωντα ικανο). Sufficient number (ικανο) are already asleep in death because of their desecration of the Lord's table. Paul evidently had knowledge of specific instances....

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper, and one is hungry, and another i...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:18. For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they whic...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    1 Corinthians 11:20. _When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper. For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another i...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Christian order and the Lord's supper. Meaning of the Lord's table. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul. CONCLUSION: The Lord's supper is a memorial of His finished atonement, a parable of His pr...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 3:6

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THAT IS WHY. The judgment mentioned in 1 Corinthians 11:29. MacKnight and others think that God was bringing physical punishments on them because of their unholy attitude (such as Acts 5:5)_. Lipscomb...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep._ THE PUNISHMENT FOR UNWORTHY PARTAKING I. The punishment. Here are three steps to the grave: weakness, sickness, temporal death. 1...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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. Irreverently....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 11:17 The Corinthians were using their gatherings around the Lord’s Table as occasions to make social distinctions between rich and poor. Paul is profoundly trouble...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 CORINTHIANS 11:2 Divisions over Corporate Worship. Paul addresses issues related to the Corinthians’ behavior in worship....

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER The Apostle proceeds to deal with the third point put before him, that of the veiling of women; for the Corinthians had asked of S. Paul whether or no women ought t...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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 to be t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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," he sets for...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn in our Bibles now to I Corinthians 11. Paul here in the first verse said, Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ (1 Corinthians 11:1). In the previous verse he spoke about h...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 11:32; 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Kings 13:21; 1 Thessalonians 4:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    For this cause — Which they had not observed. Many sleep — In death....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    FOR THIS CAUSE; that is, for profaning the sacrament, and not discerning the Lord's body at the Lord's table; for not approaching it as. feast of love designed equally for the benefit of all his membe...

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