For this causei.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, but actually physical evil, many are weak and sickly.

And many sleep. — Better, and some die. Even death sometimes resulted from their drunken orgies, either naturally, or by God’s direct visitation.

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