Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 11:21

21 For in eating, every one taketh before other his own supper , and one is hungry , and another is drunken .

There was at this time in most of the Christian Church a Iewish Party, viz. such as were converted from Judaism to Christianity, and had a tang of the old Cask, being too tenacious of some Jewish Rites. These looked upon the Lords Supper as an appurtenance to the Passeover, immediately after which we know that Christ at first instituted his Supper. As therefore Christ did eat the Paschal Supper before the Lords Supper; so they in imitation of him, though they forbare the Paschal Lamb, yet would have a Supper of their own to precede the Lords Supper, and having provided it at home, would bring it to the place where the Church was to meet,

and their poor Brethren contributing nothing to the charge of that Supper, they would not stay for them, but took this their own Supper: so it came to pass, that the poorer Christians were hungry, had none or very little share in their Feast,

whiles others, the richer part of the Church, had too much; for I take our Translation of this word [non-Latin text not transcribed] to be very hard and uncharitable. Hard, because the word doth not necessarily▪ so signifie, only drinking beyond what is strictly necessary, and our Translators themselves, Ioh. 2.10. render it well drunk. Uncharitable, because it certainly must be very uncharitably presumed of this Church of Corinth, that they should suffer persons, at that time actually drunk, to come to the Lords Table.