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Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 11:17-26

1. The abuses 11:17-26The first abuse reflects a problem on the horizontal level, between believers in the church. The second more serious abuse was vertical, involving the church and its Lord. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 11:17-34

D. The Lord’s Supper 11:17-34Most of the Corinthians had been following Paul’s instructions regarding women’s head-coverings so he commended them (1 Corinthians 11:2), but he could not approve their practice at the Lord’s Supper. They needed to make some major changes there. What they were doing cut at the heart of both the gospel and the church. This is the one certain situation in the Corinthian church that Paul addressed in chapters 7-16 that the Corinthians themselves had not asked him... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 11:23

What Paul taught here came ultimately from the Lord Jesus Himself. This reminder stresses the importance of this revelation."The verbs ’received’ and ’passed on,’ which occur again in combination in 1 Corinthians 15:3, are technical terms from Paul’s Jewish heritage for the transmission of religious instruction. His present concern is to establish that the tradition about the Supper they had received from him came from Jesus himself: ’I received [it] from the Lord.’" [Note: Fee, The First . .... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Abuse of the Lord 11:23-26There was an even more serious dimension to this problem. The Corinthians were sinning against the Lord as well as one another. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:1-34

Disorders In Worship2-16. (c) The Veiling of Women in Church2. Now I praise you] This v. introduces the two following sections. The Apostle begins by praising them, perhaps echoing words from their own letter, for keeping the rules and teaching he had given; but goes on to rebuke faults that have come to his knowledge. Keep the ordinances] RV ’hold fast the traditions’: cp. 2 Thessalonians 2:15. I delivered them to you] 1 Corinthians 11:23; 1 Corinthians 15:3. Probably here rules for worship... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - 1 Corinthians 11:23

(23) For I have received of the Lord.—Better, For I received from the Lord. Do these words imply that St. Paul had a direct revelation from Christ of the words and facts which he now recalls, or merely that he knew from the accounts given him by others who had been present, what took place on that memorable and solemn occasion?The whole structure of the passage seems to imply that what follows had been received by St. Paul directly from Christ, and that he is not appealing to a well-known... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - 1 Corinthians 11:1-34

The Duty of Praising People 1 Corinthians 11:2 What is praise? There is all the difference in the world between praise and flattery. Praise is commendation of character, the expressed approval of conduct. Flattery is false or insincere praise. Flattery is essentially a lie; it is poisoned honey. The Bible utters most terrible denunciations against flattery. Yet the Book, which waxes fierce against flattery, enjoins praise; and in this text of mine Paul's voice rings out like a clarion in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - 1 Corinthians 11:20-34

Chapter 17ABUSE OF THE LORD’S SUPPERIN this paragraph of his letter Paul speaks of an abuse which can scarcely be credited, still less tolerated, in our times. The most sacred of all Christian ordinances had been allowed to degenerate into a bacchanalian revel, not easily to be distinguished from a Greek drinking party. A respectable citizen would hardly have permitted at his own table the license and excess visible at the Table of the Lord. How such disorders in worship should have arisen... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:1-34

II. THE CHURCH, THE BODY OF CHRIST: CHAPTERS 11-14 1. Headship, and the Position of Woman. The Lord’s Supper. CHAPTER 11. 1. The Headship of Christ and of the Man; Position of Woman. (1 Corinthians 11:1-16 .) 2. The Lord’s Supper. (1 Corinthians 11:17-31 .) The opening verse belongs to the preceding chapter. And now after the church in relation to the world had been treated by the Apostle in the first part of the epistle, he takes up next the affairs of the church itself. Here, too, much... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:23

11:23 {18} For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the [same] night in which he was betrayed took bread:(18) We must take a true form of keeping the Lord’s supper, out of the institution of it, the parts of which are these: touching the pastors, to show forth the Lord’s death by preaching his word, to bless the bread and the wine by calling upon the name of God, and together with prayers to declare the institution of it, and finally to deliver... read more

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