1 Corinthians 11:20 (WEB)
When therefore you assemble yourselves together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat.
Catechism · 1
“The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 11:20; Rev 19:9.
Fathers and councils · 2
Council of Carthage (419)
“I refer it to the consideration of the learned reader, whether St. Paul, by the Δεῖπνον κυριακὸν, 1 Cor. xi. 20, does not mean this entertainment.” — the author cites it
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Clement of Alexandria
“But always must we conduct ourselves as in the Lord’s presence, lest He say to us, as the apostle in indignation said to the Corinthians, “When ye come together, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.”” — editor's note: 1 Cor. xi. 20. [Clement has already hinted his opinion, that this referred to a shameful custom of the Corinthians to let an agape precede the Eucharist; an…
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