Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
If he discern not the body (mh diakrinwn to swma). So-called conditional use of the participle, "not judging the body." Thus he eats and drinks judgment (krima) on himself. The verb dia-krinw is an old and common word, our
dis-cri-minate, to distinguish. Eating the bread and drinking the wine as symbols of the Lord's body and blood in death probes one's heart to the very depths.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
1 Corinthians 11:27
1 Corinthians 12:10
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