What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.
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Gill's Exposition
For I have received of the Lord,.... The apostle observes unto them the rule, use, and end of the Lord's supper; his view in it is, to correct the disorders among them, and to bring them to a strict…
Barnes' Notes
What! - This whole verse is designed to convey the language of severe rebuke for their having so grossly perverted the design of the Lord’s Supper. Have ye not houses ... - Do you not know that the…
Adam Clarke
Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? - They should have taken their ordinary meal at home, and have come together in the church to celebrate the Lord's Supper.
Despise ye the church of God - Ye…
In this passage the apostle sharply rebukes them for much greater disorders than the former, in their partaking of the Lord's supper, which was commonly done in the first ages, as the ancients tell…
Cambridge Bible
have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? i.e. If all you came together for were to satisfy your own hunger, you might just as well eat and drink at home. But the Lord's Supper was instituted for a…
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