Teks -- 1 Corinthians 11:30 (NET)

11:30 That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

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Robertson: 1Co 11:30 - And not a few sleep

And not a few sleep ( kai koimōntai hikanoi ).

Sufficient number (hikanoi ) are already asleep in death because of their desecration of the Lord’ s table. Paul evidently had knowledge of specific instances. A few would be too many.

Vincent: 1Co 11:30 - Weak and sickly

Weak and sickly

Physical visitations on account of profanation of the Lord's table.

Vincent: 1Co 11:30 - Many sleep

Many sleep ( κοιμῶνται ἱκανοί )

The word for many means, primarily, adequate , sufficient . See on Rom 15:23. Rev., not a few hardly expresses the ominous shading of the word: quite enough have died. Sleep . Better, are sleeping . Here simply as a synonym for are dead , without the peculiar restful sense which christian sentiment so commonly conveys into it. See on Act 7:60; see on 2Pe 3:4.

Wesley: 1Co 11:30 - For this cause

Which they had not observed.

Wesley: 1Co 11:30 - Many sleep

In death.

JFB: 1Co 11:30 - weak . . . sickly

He is "weak" who has naturally no strength: "sickly," who has lost his strength by disease [TITTMANN, Greek Synonyms of the New Testament].

JFB: 1Co 11:30 - sleep

Are being lulled in death: not a violent death; but one the result of sickness, sent as the Lord's chastening for the individual's salvation, the mind being brought to a right state on the sick bed (1Co 11:31).

Clarke: 1Co 11:30 - For this cause

For this cause - That they partook of this sacred ordinance without discerning the Lord’ s body; many are weak and sickly: it is hard to say whether these words refer to the consequences of their own intemperance or to some extraordinary disorders inflicted immediately by God himself. That there were disorders of the most reprehensible kind among these people at this sacred supper, the preceding verses sufficiently point out; and after such excesses, many might be weak and sickly among them, and many might sleep, i.e. die; for continual experience shows us that many fall victims to their own intemperance. How ever, acting as they did in this solemn and awful sacrament, they might have "provoked God to plague them with divers diseases and sundry kinds of death."Communion service.

Calvin: 1Co 11:30 - For this cause

30.For this cause, etc. After having treated in a general way of unworthy eating, and of the kind of punishment that awaits those who pollute this sacrament, he now instructs the Corinthians as to the chastisement which they were at that time enduring. It is not known whether a pestilence was raging there at that time, or whether they were laboring under other kinds of disease. However it may have been as to this, we infer from Paul’s words, that the Lord had sent some scourge upon them for their correction. Nor does Paul merely conjecture, that it is on that account that they are punished, but he affirms it as a thing that was perfectly well known by him. He says, then, that many lay sick — that many were kept long in a languishing condition, and that many had died, in consequence of that abuse of the Supper, because they had offended God. By this he intimates, that by diseases and other chastisements from God, we are admonished to think of our sins; for God does not afflict us without good reason, for he takes no pleasure in our afflictions.

The subject is a copious and ample one; but let it suffice to advert to it here in a single word. If in Paul’s times an ordinary abuse of the Supper ⁷¹⁰ could kindle the wrath of God against the Corinthians, so that he punished them thus severely, what ought we to think as to the state of matters at the present day? We see, throughout the whole extent of Popery, not merely horrid profanations of the Supper, but even a sacrilegious abomination set up in its room. In the first place, it is prostituted to filthy lucre (1Ti 3:8) and merchandise. Secondly, it is maimed, by taking away the use of the cup. Thirdly, it is changed into another aspect, ⁷¹¹ by its having become customary for one to partake of his own feast separately, participation being done away. ⁷¹² Fourthly, there is there no explanation of the meaning of the sacrament, but a mumbling that would accord better with a magical incantation, or the detestable sacrifices of the Gentiles, than with our Lord’s institution. Fifthly, there is an endless number of ceremonies, abounding partly with trifles, partly with superstition, and consequently manifest pollutions. Sixthly, there is the diabolical invention of sacrifice, which contains an impious blasphemy against the death of Christ. Seventhly, it is fitted to intoxicate miserable men with carnal confidence, while they present it to God as if it were an expiation, and think that by this charm they drive off everything hurtful, and that without faith and repentance. Nay more, while they trust that they are armed against the devil and death, and are fortified against God by a sure defense, they venture to sin with much more freedom, ⁷¹³ and become more obstinate. Eighthly, an idol is there adored in the room of Christ. In short, it is filled with all kinds of abomination. ⁷¹⁴

Nay even among ourselves, who have the pure administration of the Supper restored to us, ⁷¹⁵ in virtue of a return, as it were, from captivity, ⁷¹⁶ how much irreverence! How much hypocrisy on the part of many! What a disgraceful mixture, while, without any discrimination, wicked and openly abandoned persons intrude themselves, such as no man of character and decency would admit to common intercourse! ⁷¹⁷ And yet after all, we wonder how it comes that there are so many wars, so many pestilences, so many failures of the crop, so many disasters and calamities — as if the cause were not manifest! And assuredly, we must not expect a termination to our calamities, until we have removed the occasion of them, by correcting our faults.

Defender: 1Co 11:30 - many sleep

"Sleep" is used as a euphemism for death only in the case of Christians (1Th 4:13; 1Co 15:51). Persistent or unconfessed sin by a Christian, especially when hypocritically partaking of the Lord's Supper, risks serious judgment by the Lord, even though not the loss of salvation."

TSK: 1Co 11:30 - many // sleep

many : 1Co 11:32; Exo 15:26; Num 20:12, Num 20:24, Num 21:6-9; 2Sa 12:14-18; 1Ki 13:21-24; Psa 38:1-8, Psa 78:30,Psa 78:31, Psa 89:31-34; Amo 3:2; Heb 12:5-11; Rev 3:19

sleep : 1Co 15:51; Act 13:36; 1Th 4:14

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Poole: 1Co 11:30

You, it may be, are not aware of it, but look upon other causes why so many amongst you are sick, and weak, and die immaturely; but I, as the apostle of Jesus Christ, (and so know the mind and will of God), assure you, that this your irreverent and irreligious profanation of this holy ordinance, is one great cause of so many among you being sick, and weak, and dying in unripe age. Some think that the word

sleep argues that they were godly, penitent Christians that so died, (for the death of wicked men is hardly called sleeping any where in holy writ), to let us know, that even good people, who yet may be saved, may bring judgments in this life upon themselves, as by the profanation of God’ s name in other ordinances, so more especially by their profanation of it in this ordinance of the supper.

Haydock: 1Co 11:30-32 - Therefore

Therefore in punishment of the sin of receiving unworthily, many are infirm, visited with infirmities, even that bring death, which is meant by those words, many sleep. But it is a mercy of God, when he only punishes by sickness, or a corporal death, and does not permit us to perish for ever, or be condemned with this wicked world. To avoid this, let a man prove himself, examine the state of his conscience, especially before he receives the holy sacrament, confess his sins, and be absolved by those to whom Christ left the power of forgiving sins in his name, and by his authority. If we judge ourselves in this manner, we shall not be judged, that is, condemned. (Witham)

Gill: 1Co 11:30 - For this cause many are weak and sickly // and many sleep

For this cause many are weak and sickly,.... Because of their unworthy participation of the Lord's supper, many in the Corinthian church were attended with bodily infirmities and diseases; either by way of fatherly chastisement and correction in such who were truly the Lord's people, though they had behaved unworthily; or by way of punishment to such who were not, and had sinned very grossly:

and many sleep; that is, die a corporeal death, which is often in Scripture signified by sleep, and frequently used of the saints, and their death, and may intend and include some of them here; for though the Lord might resent so far their unworthy conduct and behaviour at his table, as to remove them out of this world by death, yet their souls may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.