What, have you not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God; and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? Do I praise you? In this I praise you not.
Cornelius a Lapide
What 1 have ye not houses to eat and to drink ini &c. Why do you put to shame the poor who have not your wealth, and cannot contribute the delicacies which you can to the common meal? If you wish to feast and enjoy yourselves, do it at home among your equals, not in the church. For if you do it in church you sin in two ways: (1.) because you defile the church by your self-indulgence ; (2.) because, by neglecting and despising the poor, you rend the Christian Church, which is common to rich and poor
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.