3. A reform of treatment of the Lord’s Supper enjoined, 1 Corinthians 11:28-34. 28. Examine himself The strict meaning is, try himself by tests; such tests as his rectitude of life, his purity of thought, his zeal for Christ. So Either with the approval of his conscience of his spiritual state, or with repentance where wrong. read more
29. Damnation Not eternal perdition; but, literally, judgment. And that judgment Paul seems to have considered as likely to be inflicted upon the body of the Christian offender, as intimated in the next verse. Discerning… body Treating the elements as if they were mere bread and wine in disregard of their holy symbolism. read more
30. Weak and sickly… sleep Commentators generally agree that Paul here ascribes a then prevalent sickliness and mortality in the Church to their desecration of the holy supper. That at a miraculous era the apostolic mind was given to know such to be the case might readily be conceded. The monstrous idea that disease and death were produced naturally by their excesses would imply that the apostolic excommunication was quite as much required as in the case of the fornicator. But the word ... read more
31. We Softening his rebukes by adopting the first person. Judge ourselves God has given us a judge within our breasts our conscience before whose bar, enlightened by Scripture and quickened by the Holy Spirit, we may arraign ourselves and regulate and shape our character. By that judgment we may forestall the divine judgment, and escape the divine condemnation. read more
32. We Christians. Are judged… chastened Those divine earthly judgments which are wrathful punishments upon the wicked are discipline, severe blessings, to the righteous. Not be condemned The very purpose of these judgments to the Christian is mercy and salvation. With the world A sad assumption, therefore, that the world of that period was lying in wickedness and sinking to death. read more
33. Wherefore In view of the corrective and saving power of these judgments. Tarry We do not understand the injunction to be to wait until the others had all arrived at the place of meeting. It does not appear that one could not come as early as the other. Nor does the discourteous taketh before of 1 Corinthians 11:21 refer to an earlier coming and eating before the others had appeared; but to the richer parties refusing to wait for a spreading of all the contributions before the whole... read more
34. Hunger The very name agape indicated that these love-feasts were for the cultivation of the affections, not the gratification of the appetite, or the sustenance of, at any rate, the well-off class. The rest Referring, doubtless, to other matters in regard to the good order of their assemblages contained in the letter of the Corinthians. From this passage Romanists argue in favour of traditional customs added by them to the institutes of the Church, and especially to the Lord’s... read more
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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - 1 Corinthians 11:27
27. Eat… and drink The and, by the best readings, should be or. Alford thinks, apparently, that our translators have “unfairly” made it and to evade the Romish argument drawn from it in favour of withholding the cup from the laity. But the or does not aid the Romish practice. The or does make Paul say that dishonouring either one the bread or the cup renders guilty; but it does not, therefore, say that either one shall be withheld. Guilty of the body That is, it is the body... read more