[g] discerning] The Hebrew קדש signifies two things, to sanctify and to discriminate, and is accordingly sometimes rendered by ἀγιάζειν, and once by διαστέλλειν, Jos. xx. 7. From hence it seems to be that διακρίνειν here, being the literal rendering of one notion of the Hebrew קדש, is taken for the other of hallowing or sanctifying the Lord's body, that is, eating the Lord's supper (in a different manner from that of eating our ordinary meal, or ἴδιον δείπνον, our own supper, viz.) as the institution of Christ, to represent his death for the world, and the diffusive mercy of that by our Christian liberality, and furnishing a common table, where the poor as well as rich may feast, and not the rich eat all to themselves; which is the profaning of that feast of the body of Christ. And when we are punished, it is for our good, that being reformed by stripes we may be freed from those punishments which fall on the unreformed to all eternity. To conclude, then; when ye meet at one of these Christian festivals, have that care and charity to all others as well as yourselves, that all eat together by equality, as having a common right to a feast of charity, that so ye may celebrate it as ye ought to do.