Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
one taketh before other—the rich "before" the poor, who had no supper of their own. Instead of "tarrying for one another" (I Corinthians 11:33); hence the precept (I Corinthians 12:21, I Corinthians 12:25).
his own supper—"His own" belly is his God (Philippians 3:19); "the Lord's Supper," the spiritual feast, never enters his thoughts.
drunken—The one has more than is good for him, the other less [BENGEL].
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 11:21:
1 Corinthians 11:18
1 Corinthians 11:20
1 Corinthians 11:33
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