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therefore has the effect of resuming the discourse, ver. 18. — ovx Zen <pays?v) there is not aught to eat , i.e. it does not fall to you to eat ; eating is prevented, viz. because the bread is withdrawn he therefore pointedly says, to eat. It is an indefinite expres- sion. [ Man kommt niclit dazu , wegen Ahgang des Brots und
Weins , u we come not for that purpose , on account of the want of bread and wine.” — Not. crit.] Sometimes they came in for the privilege of eating the Lord’s Supper itself, ver. 26. Sometimes, they were excluded, some at least, who came too late, and had not been waited for, ver. 33. So Ur) with the infinitive, Heb. ix. 5. So not merely on one occasion Chrysostom. — See 1. 2 de Sacerd., p. 388. There is a similar use of the verb yhsrut, Acts xx. 16. So *T PK, 2 Chron. v. 11 ; wJ? pK, Esth. iv. 2 ; ovx stir iv apai , LXX., 1 Chron. XV. 2 ; ovx sen rrpbg tis avntirrjvai, 2 Chron. xx. 6, and decidedly Gen. vi. 21, xa) serai go) xa) sxs'mtg <pays?v. — Kvptaxbv , the Lord’s) An antithesis to his own , (idiov) supper, next verse.
21. "Ex a Grog, every one) G. Raphelius says : u It was a custom at Athens, in the age of Socrates, for every one of those, wdio met at supper, to bring some meat for himself, which they did not set out for general use, but every one usually ate his own.” Then, after he has referred to the testimony of Xenophon, he concludes, u That this very passage of the apostle, is a proof so far of the observance of this custom, even at that time, by the Corinthians, who had become Christians, that when they were about to celebrate the Lord’s Supper, they brought at least bread and wine, if not other meats also, into the church, of which a part was afterwards taken and consecrated for the eucharist. For doubtless Paul calls the first their own supper , ver. 21, ’/diov foTnvov, namely the meat, which every one had brought from home, and which they fell upon as their right, without waiting for others. Then, oi syovrsg, those who have not, ver. 22, can be understood to be no other than the poorer members, in whose presence, the richer, not without showing contempt for them, intemperately feasted, before the distribution of the elements in the Lord’s Supper, which the poor were present (had come) to enjoy, while no other food besides was prepared for them.” —
1 Those who came first consumed it all, and left none for those who came late. — Ed.
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