...profanation of .this ordinance, may consist in temporal afflictions — weakness, sickness, Sic. " For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep."* This was the damnation or judgment sent on the Corinthians, for their disorderly and profane...

...unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body." — (v. 31.)" For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep," — (v. 32.) that is, many of those who did eat and drink unworthily : they were judged by...

...Lord's body eat and drink to themselves, is not eternal but temporal ; for the apostle continues, " For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, but when we are judged, (*ji»o^i«<,) we are corrected", (*wi)u<pi&«,) by the Lord, that we...

...drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. «• SO For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. Julian Pe- S3 Wherefore, my brethren,...

...everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt, 15. For, behold, the LOB D cometh PDan. xii. 2. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, 1 Cor. xi. 30. BrhoM, I shew you a mystery ; We shall not all sleep, butwc shall all be changed,...

...he told them the worst of their danger, and he tells them of nothing else. The very next words are : For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep, are dead. Then follows, what entirely clears up the matter : If we would judge ourselves we...

...apostle here spake, we have reason to believe he meant temporal judgments : for he immediately added, " for this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep ;" which is generally understood to mean that the Lord had sent sickness and mortality nmong...

...intend to apply it in that manner, as may be seen at once, by the words which follow. For he says, " for this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep*." Of this our translators were perfectly aware, and used the word damnation in the sense, in...

...that the Apostle did not here mean eternal damnation, from the explanation which he immediately adds, For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep4. The temporal judgments of God, therefore, as consequent upon a wilful abuse of the Lord's Supper,...

...eternal damnation, but a temporal judgment, as was evidently then the case of the Corinthian church : " For this cause many are weak, and sickly among you, and many sleep." Loveg. I fear many good people are sadly puzzled ahout such passages as these; but then we...