1 CORINTHIANS 11:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.”
For when you are eating, each of you goes ahead without waiting for anybody else. One remains hungry, another gets drunk — the Corinthians' problem is stark social inequality; the wealthy eat their full meal (and drink wine to excess) before the poor arrive, who then find little left, creating a parody of communion that mocks the gospel of reconciliation.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:21
“For in your eating, each one takes before other his own supper,” says he, “and one is hungry, and another is drunken.” Do you perceive how he intimates that they were disgracing themselves rather? For that which is the Lord's, they make a private matter: so that themselves are the first to suffer indignity, depriving their own table of its greatest prerogative. How and in what manner? Because the Lord's Supper, i.e. the Master's, ought to be common. For the property of the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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