ACC ~ 1 Corinthians 11 v30

REINFORCING THE LESSON. CHRYSOSTOM: Here Paul does not take his example from ancient Israel, as he did earlier, but from the Corinthians themselves, so that the lesson would strike home more deeply. People were looking for an explanation for the untimely deaths in their midst, and here Paul gives it. HOMILIES ON THE EPISTLES OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 28.2.

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