For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
All Commentaries on 1 Corinthians 11:30 Go To 1 Corinthians 11
John Chrysostom
AD 407
Here Paul does not take his example from ancient Israel, as he did earlier, but from the Corinthians themselves, so that the lesson would strike home more deeply. People were looking for an explanation for the untimely deaths in their midst, and here Paul gives it.
