When you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
When ye come together, therefore, into one place, this is not to eat the Lord"s supper. When you come together in this way to the Eucharist and the supper of the Lord, your supper is no longer that of the Lord, as it once was; and your eating is no longer an eating of the Lord"s Supper. You do not institute a supper of the Lord, who admitted to His sober and holy meal all the Apostles, including even Judas, but a supper to Bacchus or Mars; for you come together to get drunk, and to exclude the poor, and so each one fills himself with wine, and the poor with violence. So Anselm, Chrysostom, Theophylact, Vatablus, and Erasmus read for "it is not," "it is not lawful," i.e, "it is not lawful for you to eat the Lord"s Supper, and for this reason." But the first meaning is more thorough, more forcible, and better reproves the Corinthians.
