Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
To eat the Lord's Supper (Kuriakon deipnon fagein). Kuriakov, adjective from Kuriov, belonging to or pertaining to the Lord, is not just a biblical or ecclesiastical word, for it is found in the inscriptions and papyri in the sense of imperial (Deissmann, Light from the Ancient East, p. 358), as imperial finance, imperial treasury. It is possible that here the term applies both to the Agaph or Love-feast (a sort of church supper or club supper held in connection with, before or after, the Lord's Supper) and the Eucharist or Lord's Supper. Deipnon, so common in the Gospels, only here in Paul. The selfish conduct of the Corinthians made it impossible to eat a Lord's Supper at all.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Corinthians 11:20:
Acts 1:15
Acts 2:42
Acts 20:7
1 Corinthians 10:21
1 Corinthians 11:28
Revelation 1:10
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