...religious and Christian observance, so solemnly instituted) from common eating VOL. VIII. L TEXT. 30 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. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened...

...which the Corinthians had by their misconduct exposed themselves. What does he immediately add ? — " For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." God had punished their profaneness and presumption by afflicting them with divers diseases, of which...

...St. Paul tells the Corinthians, was the case with them for' the profanation of the Lord's Supper : " For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." (1 Cor. xi. 30.) Thus St. James says, if the sick man's illness were sent as a judgment from God for...

...eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened...

...inflicted heavy temporal judgments upon many of them. " For this cause," saith the holy Apostle, " many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep,"* that is, are dead. And is the Lord's arm shortened now? Have we, of these latter days, any sure hope of escaping the judgments,...

...with death." (k) " Not discerning, &c." ie " not treating it with the reverence to Lord's body. 30. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. (/) 31. For if we would judge (m) ourselves, we shoidd not be (и) judged. 32. But when (o) we are...

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

...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 God, and...

...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 conduct...

...means thus much, with temporal chastisements for their sin, is evident from what he afterwards says — For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged : but when we are judged, we are chastened...