1 CORINTHIANS 11:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.”
So then, when you come together, it is not the Lord's Supper that you eat — Paul makes a devastating judgment: their meal is no longer the Kuriakos deipnon (the Lord's Supper); the fracture between practice and name is complete—they have emptied the meal of its meaning and made it something other than what it claims to be.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:20
“When ye assemble yourselves together,” says he, “it is not possible to eat the Lord's Supper.” Do you see how effectually appealing to their shame, even already by way of narrative he contrives to give them his counsel? “For the appearance of your assembly,” says he, “is different. It is one of love and brotherly affection. At least one place receives you all, and you are together in one flock. But the Banquet, when you come to that, bears no resemblance to the Assembly of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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