Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Taketh before (prolambanei). Before others. Old verb to take before others. It was conduct like this that led to the complete separation between the Love-feast and the Lord's Supper. It was not even a common meal together (koinon deipnon), not to say a Lord's deipnon. It was a mere
grab-game.
This one is hungry (ov de peinai). Demonstrative ov. Nothing is left for him at the love-feast.
Another is drunken (ov de mequei). Such disgusting conduct was considered shameful in heathen club suppers. "Hungry poor meeting intoxicated rich, at what was supposed to be a supper of the Lord" (Robertson and Plummer). On mequw, to be drunk, see on Matthew 24:49; Acts 2:15.
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