LUKE 22:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.”
For I tell you I will not drink again from the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes — the Nazarite-like abstinence from the cup until the kingdom comes: the anticipation of the messianic banquet when the abstinence will be ended. The fruit of the vine communicates the Passover wine; the kingdom of God comes is the eschatological completion.
Church Fathers on Luke 22:18
As soon as the disciples had prepared the Passover, they proceed to eat it; as it is said, And when the hour was come, &c.
By the hour of eating the Passover, He signifies the fourteenth day of the first month, far gone towards evening, the fifteenth moon just appearing on the earth.
But how is our Lord said to sit down, whereas the Jews eat the Passover standing? They say, that when they had eaten the legal Passover, they sat down according to the common custom, to eat their other food.
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