Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 11:18

18 For first of all when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions amongst you, and I partly believe it .

In the Church here must signifie the Religious Assembly; for at this time there were no Temples builded for Christians, but they met in private houses, as the iniquity of those times would hear: yet others think the place is here meant where the Church was wont to meet, and say, That the Christia[illegible: 1 letter] had a certain stated place, though in a private house, where they used to meet. But it is not very probable, that they should in the midst of Heathens be so quiet and secure to meet either constantly, or ordinarily in any one certain and stated place, so denominated. What Schisms, or divisions the Apostle meaneth, he expounded in the following verses, either they quarrelled about meats, or drinks, or their order in sitting down, or the time when they should begin, or did not stay till they were all met.

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