Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
damnation—A mistranslation which has put a stumbling-block in the way of many in respect to communicating. The right translation is "judgment." The judgment is described (I Corinthians 11:30-32) as temporal.
not discerning—not duty judging: not distinguishing in judgment (so the Greek: the sin and its punishment thus being marked as corresponding) from common food, the sacramental pledges of the Lord's body. Most of the oldest manuscripts omit "Lord's" (see I Corinthians 11:27). Omitting also "unworthily," with most of the oldest manuscripts, we must translate, "He that eateth and drinketh, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, IF he discern not the body" (Hebrews 10:29). The Church is "the body of Christ" (I Corinthians 12:27). The Lord's body is His literal body appreciated and discerned by the soul in the faithful receiving, and not present in the elements themselves.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing 1 Corinthians 11:29:
1 Corinthians 11:28
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