For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.For in eating what ye call the Lord's supper, instead of all partaking of one bread, each person brings his own supper, and eats it without staying for the rest. And hereby the poor, who cannot provide for themselves, have nothing; while the rich eat and drink to the full just as the heathens use to do at the feasts on their sacrifices. read more
What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.Have ye not houses to eat and drink your common meals in? or do ye despise the church of God - Of which the poor are both the larger and the better part. Do ye act thus in designed contempt of them? read more
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:I received — By an immediate revelation. read more
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.This is my body, which is broken for you — That is, this broken bread is the sign of my body, which is even now to be pierced and wounded for your iniquities. Take then, and eat of, this bread, in an humble, thankful, obediential remembrance of my dying love; of the extremity of my sufferings on your behalf, of the blessings I have thereby procured for you, and... read more
After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.After supper — Therefore ye ought not to confound this with a common meal.Do this in remembrance of me — The ancient sacrifices were in remembrance of sin: this sacrifice, once offered, is still represented in remembrance of the remission of sins. read more
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.Ye show forth the Lord's death — Ye proclaim, as it were, and openly avow it to God, and to all the world.Till he come — In glory. read more
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.Whosoever shall eat this bread unworthily — That is, in an unworthy, irreverent manner; without regarding either Him that appointed it, or the design of its appointment. Shall be guilty of profaning that which represents the body and blood of the Lord. read more
But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.But let a man examine himself — Whether he know the nature and the design of the institution, and whether it be his own desire and purpose throughly to comply therewith. read more
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.For he that eateth and drinketh so unworthily as those Corinthians did, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself - Temporal judgments of various kinds, 1 Corinthians 11:30. Not distinguishing the sacred tokens of the Lord's body - From his common food. read more
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes - 1 Corinthians 11:20
When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.Therefore — That is, in consequence of those schisms.It is not eating the Lord's supper — That solemn memorial of his death; but quite another thing. read more