death for all leads to social transformation: all social rankings and separations among believers are relativized when they gather for the Lord’s meal. As John Chrysostom rightly sensed, the problem at Corinth was that “the Corinthians were disgracing themselves by turning the Lord’s Supper into a private meal and thus depriving it of its greatest prerogative. The Lord’s Supper ought to be common to all, because it is the Master’s, whose property does not belong to one servant or to another but ought
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