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What, don`t you have houses to eat and to drink in? Or do you despise God`s assembly, and put them to shame who don`t have? What will I tell you? Will I praise you? In this I don`t praise you.
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Sacred Space, Not a Cafeteria
Commentators emphasize Paul's sharp distinction between the home and the church gathering. His question, "Have you not houses to eat and to drink in?" is a rebuke against using the sacred assembly for ordinary meals. Scholars like Calvin argue that even without the abuses, turning the church into a place for feasting is improper, as its purpose is for worship, prayer, and observing the sacraments.
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1 Corinthians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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 …
What? Have ye not houses? (Μη γαρ οικιας ουκ εχετε; ) The double negative (μη--ουκ) in the single question is like the idiom in 9:…
19th Century
Anglican
What? have ye not houses . . .?—It is better understood as, Surely it is not that you have no houses to eat and drink…
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Baptist
For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there are divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be a…
The Christian common meal (agape feast) apparently followed the pattern of public sacred feasting among the Jews and Greeks. The food was brought t…
16th Century
Protestant
Do you not have houses? From this we see that the Apostle was utterly dissatisfied with this custom of feasting, even though the abuse for…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
What? have you not houses to eat and drink in ? &c.] This shows that one taking his supper before another, was not i…
The apostle rebukes the disorders in their partaking of the Lord's Supper. The ordinances of Christ, if they do not make us better, are likely to m…
13th Century
Catholic
After rebuking the Corinthians for their error in covering—that is, because the women came to the sacred mysteries with their heads uncovered—the A…