Word Pictures in the New Testament - David Cox

Word Pictures in the NT [1 Corinthians: Chapter 11].
infinitive \huparchein\ in indirect discourse. Old word for
cleft, rent, from \schiz•\. Example in papyri for splinter of
wood. See on 1:10. Not yet formal cleavages into two or more
organizations, but partisan divisions that showed in the
love-feasts and at the Lord's Supper. {Partly} (\meros ti\).
Accusative of extent (to some part) like \panta\ in 10:33. He
could have said \ek merous\ as in 13:9. The rumours of strife
were so constant (I keep on hearing, \akou•\).
11:19 {Must be} (\dei einai\). Since moral conditions are so bad
among you (cf. chapters 1 to 6). Cf. Mt 18:7. {Heresies}
(\haireseis\). The schisms naturally become {factions} or
{parties}. Cf. strifes (\erides\) in 1:11. See on ¯Ac 15:5 for
\haireseis\, a choosing, taking sides, holding views of one
party, heresy (our word). "Heresy is theoretical schism, schism
practical heresy." Cf. Tit 3:10; 2Pe 2:1. In Paul only here and
Ga 5:20. {That} (\hina\). God's purpose in these factions makes
{the proved ones} (\hoi dokimoi\) become {manifest} (\phaneroi\).
"These \haireseis\ are a magnet attracting unsound and unsettled
minds" (Findlay). It has always been so. Instance so-called
Christian Science, Russellism, New Thought, etc., today.
11:20 {To eat the Lord's Supper} (\Kuriakon deipnon phagein\).
\Kuriakos\, adjective from \Kurios\, belonging to or pertaining
to the Lord, is not just a biblical or ecclesiastical word, for
it is found in the inscriptions and papyri in the sense of
imperial (Deissmann, _Light from the Ancient East_, p. 358), as
imperial finance, imperial treasury. It is possible that here the
term applies both to the \Agap•\ or Love-feast (a sort of church
supper or club supper held in connection with, before or after,
the Lord's Supper) and the Eucharist or Lord's Supper. \Deipnon\,
so common in the Gospels, only here in Paul. The selfish conduct
of the Corinthians made it impossible to eat a Lord's Supper at
all.
11:21 {Taketh before} (\prolambanei\). Before others. Old verb to
take before others. It was conduct like this that led to the
complete separation between the Love-feast and the Lord's Supper.
It was not even a common meal together (\koinon deipnon\), not to
say a Lord's \deipnon\. It was a mere {grab-game}. {This one is
hungry} (\hos de pein•i\). Demonstrative \hos\. Nothing is left
for him at the love-feast. {Another is drunken} (\hos de
methuei\). Such disgusting conduct was considered shameful in
heathen club suppers. "Hungry poor meeting intoxicated rich, at
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