<p>11:30 <em>For this cause many among you are weak and sickly and not a few sleep- </em>It was due to an incorrect attitude to the memorial meeting that many at Corinth were struck down &quot;weak and sickly... and many sleep&quot; (1 Cor. 11:30), presumably referring to the power the apostles had to smite apostate believers with physical discomfort and death. Such was the importance accorded to that meeting by them.This is not the only reference to physical sickness or death being used in the first century as a punishment for apostasy (Acts 5:5; James 5:15; Rev. 2:22,23).</p>