Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Corinthians 11:22

22 What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in ? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not ? What shall I say [illegible: 1 letter]o you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.

Hence evidently appears, that these Love-feasts were kept in the place where the Assembly met for the publick Worship of God; for the Apostle would have them (if they would continue [illegible: 1 letter]hem) kept in their private houses: and he doth not only blame the abuses of these Feasts, but the Feasts themselves as kept in the place where the Church met; or as having in them any pretence to any thing of Religion: meet they might friendly to eat and to drink, but their private houses were the fittest places for that.

Or do you despise the place (as some think) where the Church of God meeteth; or the people met in that place, by carrying your selves so disorderly in such a grave Assembly; or the poorer part of the Church, who, though poorer, are a part of the Church, redeemed by the Blood of Christ: the next words would incline us to think that the sense; for it followeth, and shame them that have not, that is, that have not Estates to contribute to such Feasts, and so are forced to go away without any due refreshment.

Marginal references: Jam. 2.6.; Or, them that are poor.