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 punishment of this irreverence. It is possible, however, that the words may be used in the spiritual sense, and may refer to the moral condition of the Corinthians.

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