1 CORINTHIANS 11:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.”
For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes — the Supper is both memorial and proclamation (katangellō); every celebration is a witness to Christ's atoning death and an eschatological cry pointing to his return (hēos hou an elthē), making the meal a hinge between resurrection and parousia.
Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 11:26
“For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He come.” For as Christ in regard to the bread and the cup said, “Do this in remembrance of Me,” revealing to us the cause of the giving of the Mystery, and besides what else He said, declaring this to be a sufficient cause to ground our religious fear upon:— (for when you consider what your Master has suffered for you, you will the better deny yourself:)— so also Paul says here: “as…
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