Has no one ever stopped to ponder why, two thousand years ago, “a considerable number” (hikanoi) of Corinthians were apparently dropping like flies during the proto-Mass? I cracked open my 1829 edition of the Greek New Testament and found koimontai, just where Ruck said it was, in 1 Corinthians 11:30. But his translation had to be off. How do people die from taking the Eucharist?
