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Otherwise (11:20, the threatening tone of 11:19 returns), by not subjecting himself to this interrogation he incurs the condemnation, which he would have overcome in veritable remembrance of the Lord. He eats and drinks in his alleged Christian, but in reality paganly profane religious feast, that which must befall the world, the doom. Paul can already see this judgment operating in their midst (11:30–32): weakness, disease, death are not incidents that go without saying, not so easily understood as by later Christian ages as ordinances of God, which are to be accepted with resignation; no, gloomy proofs that even Christians are still firmly rooted in the world, that redemption is still distant even for them, that even over them God’s chastising hand is still outstretched. If we address ourselves, as we ought, to the question put to us by the Lord, and therefore enter into living hope in Him, we shall escape the judgment. May it, at least, serve us as a warning, so that we shall not incur damnation in the last judgment. How drastic is the criticism persistently applied in the First Epistle to the Corinthian Church, not only in fact on account of the special external conditions in Corinth, but obviously even more on account of the decisive criterion which Paul applies, is plainly shown by the second half of the eleventh chapter, in which he fearlessly declares to his readers that the centre of their Church life, their divine service, is a danger. Paul regarded the possibility that the Church might become empty under this threat as less evil than the other, that it might remain full of rank weeds of humanity.
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