1 Corinthians 11:18 (WEB)
For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
Catechism · 1
“The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 11:17-34.
Fathers and councils · 4
Theodoret of Cyrus
“He enacted laws prohibiting sacrifices to idols, and commanding churches to be erected.” — editor's note: ἐκκλησία. The use of the word in 1 Cor. xi. 18 indicates a transition stage between “Assembly” and “Building.” The brethren met “in assembly:” soon they met in…
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Tertullian
“We have often shown before now, that the apostle classes heresies as evil among “works of the flesh,” and that he would have those persons accounted estimable who shun heresies as an evil thing.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 18, 19.
Read the whole comment“…forewarn us that we ought not to be surprised at temptations of even a worse stamp, since (he said) they tended “to make manifest all such as were approved;” in other words, those whom they were unable to pervert.” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 18.
Read the whole comment“These were the ingenious arts of “spiritual wickednesses,” wherewith we also, my brethren, may fairly expect to have “to wrestle,” as necessary for faith, that the elect may be made manifest, (and) that the reprobate may be discovered.” — editor's note: See Eph. vi. 12, and 1 Cor. xi. 18.
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Cross-references · 4
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 37.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.2.
Cited together in Ecclesiastical History I.2.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 4.