1 Corinthians Chapter 11, Verse 18
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18: πρωτον μεν γαρ συνερχομενων υμων εν τη εκκλησια ακουω σχισματα εν υμιν υπαρχειν και μερος τι πιστευω
18: For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear
that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
18: For first of all I hear that when you come together in the
church, there are schisms among you. And in part I believe it.
For first of all. That is, I mention as the first thing to be reproved.
When ye come together in the church. When you come together in a religious assembly; when you convene for public worship. The word church here does not mean, as it frequently does with us, a building. No instance of such a use of the word occurs in the New Testament; but it means, when they came together as a Christian assembly; when they convened for the worship of God. These divisions took place then; and from some cause which it seems then operated to produce alienations and strifes.
I hear. I have learned through some members of the family of Chloe, 1Cor 1:11.
That there be divisions among you. Greek, as in the margin, Schisms. The word properly means a rent, such as is made in cloth, (Mt 9:16 Mk 2:21;) and then a division, a split, a faction among men, Jn 7:43, Jn 9:16, Jn 10:19.
It does not mean here that they had proceeded so far as to form separate churches, but that there was discord and division in the church itself. See "1Cor 1:10, 1Cor 1:11.
And I partly believe it. I credit a part of the reports; I have reason to think, that, though the evil may have been exaggerated, yet that it is true at least in part. I believe that there are dissensions in the church that should be reproved.
