The Books of the New Testament
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1. Front matter2. CHAPTER I3. CHAPTER II4. CHAPTER III5. CHAPTER IV6. CHAPTER V7. CHAPTER VI8. CHAPTER VII9. CHAPTER VIII10. CHAPTER IX11. CHAPTER X12. Chapter xi. deals with public worship. St. Paul gives directions for women to cover the head in church, and then comes a reference to the Holy Eucharist which is of extreme interest and importance. It was the custom for Christians to meet together before the Eucharist for a common meal called the Agapé, which was intended to commemorate the Lord's Last Supper. St. Paul complains that this meal has been made an occasion of sin among the Corinthians: the richer people had overeaten themselves, while the poor were left hungry and ashamed. The apostle sets off the unfitness of {140} this conduct by a brief exposition of the Eucharist; the preliminary meal, so much misused by these ungracious and ungenerous Christians, was intended to be a preparation for the ineffable Feast, at which the Fare was the very Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and at which His death was solemnly represented (xi. 2-34).13. CHAPTER XI14. CHAPTER XII15. CHAPTER XIII16. CHAPTER XIV17. CHAPTER XV18. CHAPTER XVI19. CHAPTER XVII20. CHAPTER XVIII21. CHAPTER XIX22. CHAPTER XX23. CHAPTER XXI24. CHAPTER XXII25. CHAPTER XXIII26. CHAPTER XXIV27. CHAPTER XXV