1 CORINTHIANS 11:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:”
For I received from the Lord what I also passed on to you: The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread — Paul appeals to direct apostolic transmission (paralambano/paradiдōmi) from the Lord, giving us the earliest written account of the Last Supper, predating even the Gospel accounts; the solemnity of the setting (night of betrayal) underscores the gravity of what is instituted.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:23
“What? Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the Church of God, and put them to shame that have not?” Do you see how he transferred the charge from the indignity offered to the poor to the Church, that his words might make a deeper impression of disgust? Here now you see is yet a fourth accusation, when not the poor only, but the Church likewise is insulted. For even as you make the Lord's Supper a private meal, so also the place again, using the Church as…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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