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is one tiling, of eating, is another. u Some indeed say, that he excludes, not a person unworthy, but one receiving unworthily* from the sacred ordinance. If then even a worthy person ap- proaching unworthily is kept back, how much more an unworthy person, who cannot worthily partake?” — Pelagius among the works of Jerome.
28. Aox//xa£srw, let him prove [ examine ]) by judging as to himself, and by judging as to [discerning, i.e. distinguishing from common food] the body of the Lord, ver. 29, 31. — dvOpunog, a man) any one, iv. 1, even one that is in himself unworthy. — ourug) so at length. — ex rov) The preposition expresses circumspec- tion of mind ; but rov dprov , ro Korripiov, the bread , the cup , ver. 27, forms a phrase showing that they had not been duly discerned, by the receivers at Corinth : see the preceding verse.
29. Kpi/Au) [ without the article , comp. v. 32. — Not. crit.] some judgment , a disease, or the death of the body ; see next verse ; so that those who do not discern the Lord’s body have to atone for it in their bodies. He does not say rb xardxp/^a, the con- demnation.— nil diaxpivuv, not judging as to [ discerning'] ) Comp. Heb. x. 29. — rb tfw/Aa, the body) supply, and the blood. — rov K vpiov, of the Lord ) An Antonomasia [an appellative instead of the proper name], i.e. Jesus. The Church is not called the body of Jesus , or the body of the Lord ; but the body of Christ : The question here then is about the proper body of the Lord Jesus.
30. Aid rovro , for this cause) The Corinthians had not observed this cause ; but in our day it is proper to attend to it. — dcknTg xai dppojffro/y weak and sickly) weak from slighter distempers ; sickly from more serious diseases ; comp. Rev. ii. 22. — xo//4wvra/, sleep) A word in a middle sense, [/^froi/, midway between good and bad] as distinguished from the state after death. It does not denote here however a dreadful death.
31. Aiaxplvo{j,evy we would judge as to) before the deed. — Ixxpivo- fieda, we should be judged) after the deed. The simple verb and its compounds are elegantly used ; nor is it immediately added by the Lord. But Paul afterwards discloses it to us [who it is from whom the judgment comes], we are chastened by the Lord , Rev. iii. 19.
32. 2i)i/ r& xoV/aw, with the world) The world’s condemnation is therefore certain, being without chastisement.