1 CORINTHIANS 11:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.”
In the following directives I have no praise for you, for your meetings do more harm than good — Paul shifts dramatically from head coverings to a far more serious problem: the Corinthians' conduct at the Lord's Supper itself; their gatherings (synerchomai) have become occasions of division rather than unity, earning stark rebuke.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:17
It is necessary in considering the present charge to state also first the occasion of it. For thus again will our discourse be more intelligible. What then is this occasion? As in the case of the three thousand who believed in the beginning, all had eaten their meals in common and had all things common; such also was the practice at the time when the Apostle wrote this: not such indeed exactly; but as it were a certain outflowing of that communion which abode among them…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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