For as you eat, each of you goes ahead without sharing his meal. While one remains hungry, another gets drunk.
21. For every one of you taketh before others his own supper. It is truly wonderful, and next to a miracle, “Quasi incroyable;” — “As it were incredible.” that Satan could have accomplished so much in so short a time.
In this passage the apostle sharply rebukes them for much greater disorders than the former, in their partaking of the Lord's supper, which was commonly done in the first ages, as the ancients tell us, with a love-feast annexed, which gave occasion to the scandalous disorders which the apostle here reprehends, concerning which observe, I.
Commenting on 1 Corinthians 11:17-22
What? have ye not houses to eat and drink in?.... This shows that one taking his supper before another, was not in their own houses, before they came to the place of divine worship, but in the house of God; and the apostle suggests, that if they must have their ante-suppers, and were disposed to eat and drink freely, before they partook of the Lord's...