<p>11:21 <em>For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk- </em>&quot;His <em>own</em> meal&quot; meant it was no longer <em>the Lord's </em>meal- see on :20. The idea of a ritual meal, accompanied by abuse of alcohol and religious prostitutes, was typical of Corinthian religiosity. Clearly the Christian church there had turned the communion service into something similar. And worse still, the whole ceremony became a place to flaunt wealth. And yet the meal was supposed to represent the supreme unity enabled by the Lord's death, who on the cross became poor for our sakes.</p>