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[ο [ a A , ~ 23. Eyd γὰρ "παρέλαβον ἀπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου, ὃ καὶ * παρέδωκα ὑμῖν, ~ e id 3 94 ὅτι ὁ Κύριος ᾿Ιησοῦς ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ᾗ " παρεδίδοτο ) " ἔλαβεν ” ἄρτον, 3
24. καὶ "εὐχαριστήσας ” ἔκλασε καὶ εἶπε, “Λάβετε φάγετε”" τοῦτό µου ” ἐστὶ τὸ σῶμα ” τὸ * ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν κλώμενον sons, ν. 5; 12 times besides in Ῥ.; in this connexion, Mt. x. 21, xvii. 22, xxvi. 2, 45 ff., etc.
Xiv. 19, Xv. 26, 36, xvi. 5, 7, xxvi. 26; Lk. vi. 4; Jo. xxi. 13; Acts xxvii. 35. z The ellipsis (without κλωμ.), /./.
x. 16. y See x. 4.
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s In this sense, Xv. 1,3; seven times be-
µ sides in
τοῦτο ποιεῖτε P-
t See ver. 2.
u Of per-
3.
w See i. 4.
1παρεδιδετο, all uncc. but BLP. See Bm., p. 47. 20m. \aBere, Φαγετε (from Mt. xxvi. 26) all uncc, but ΟΚΙ.Ρ.
5 Om. κλωμενον N*ABC*, 17, 67**, Cyr. Add κλωµενον SycC*Db, cGKLP, latt. syrr.; θρυπτοµενον, D*; διδοµενον (Lk.),
sah. cop. vg., Cyp. ellipsis.
tinct ; here they are one, as in the Last Supper itself. The table was provisioned at Cor. not from a general fund (as was usual in the ἔρανοι or collegia), but by each guest bringing his contribution in kind, a practice not uncommon in private parties, which had the disadvantage of accentuating social differences. While the poor brought little or nothing to the feast and might be ashamed to show his fare, the rich man exhibited a loaded basket out of which he could feed to repletion. All κοινωνία was destroyed ; such vulgarity would have disgraced a heathen guild-feast. The Lord, the common Host, was forgotten at His table. ὃς μὲν wewg—sc. the poor man, whose small store was insufficient, or who arriving late (for his time was not -his own) found the table cleared (cf. προλαμβάνει). ὃς δὲ µεθύει, ‘but an- other is drunk!” or in the lighter sense suggested by wewwe, plus satis bibit (Gr., Hn.), “drinks to the full” (cf. John ii. 10); the scene of sensual greed and pride might well culminate in drunken- ness. Ofall imaginable schisms the most shocking: hunger and intoxication side by side, at what is supposed to be the Table of the Lord! This is indeed “meeting for the worse’”’.—For the de- monstr. use of the rel. pron. with μὲν and δέ, see Wr., Ρ. 130.
Ver. 22. ph γὰρ οἰκίας οὐκ ἔχετε κ.τ.λ.ς ‘For is it that you have not houses to eat and drink in?”’ See ver. 34, and note. The yap brings in an ironical excuse: ‘‘ For I suppose you act thus because you are houseless, and must satisfy your appetite at church!”’ cf. πῶς γάρ; Acts viii. 31.—If this voracity cannot be excused by a physical need which the offenders had no other means of supplying—if, that is to say, their
The three ptps. are various attempts to fill up a seeming
action is deliberate—they must intend to pour scorn on the Church and to insult their humbler brethren: ‘‘Or do you despise the church of God, and cast shame on those that are without means?” For ἡ ἐκκλησία τοῦ Θεοῦ, an expression of awful dignity, see i. 2, x. 32. τοὺς μὴ ἔχοντας, ‘‘the have-nots’? (cf. 2 Cor. vili. 12)—ot ἔχοντες in cl. Gr. signifies “the men of property’’; µή (of the point of view) rather than οὐ (of the fact), for the poor with their beggarly rations are shamed by the full-fed on this very account. What could show coarser contempt for the Church assembly ?—P. shows a fine self-restraint in the totes of the last sentence: τί εἴπω ὑμῖν; κ.τ.λ.: ‘What am I to say to you? Should I praise (you)? In this matter I praise you not”. ἐπαινέσω, deliberative aor. sbj., like εἴπω, for the question refers not to the future, but to the situation depicted (see Wr., p. 356). ἐν τούτῳ has great point and emphasis when attached to the following οὐκ ἐπαινῶ (so R.V. marg., after early Verss., Bz., Est., Mr., Hn., Gd., Bt., El., Ed.); thus also ἐπαινέσω better matches εἴπω, and the last clause prepares for the important ἐγὼ δὲ παρέ- λαβον of the ensuing ver.