same time shed for many^ not merely for their benefit in the general, but for the specific object of securing the remission of sins. It was, therefore, truly a sin-ofiering. Thus does Scripture explain Scripture. What is said concisely in one place is more fully and clearly stated in another.
This do^ as oft as ye drink it^ in remembrance of me. These words do not occur in Luke. In Matthew the words are, Drink ye all of it. Mark says. They all drank of it. In each account the fact is made plain that the cup was distribut- ed to all at the table and that all drank of it. The words This do are to be understood here as in v. 25, ' Do what I have done, i. e. bless the cup and distribute it among yourselves.' As oft as ye drink of it. This does not mean that every time Christians drank wine together they should do it in commem- oration of Christ's death ; but, * as often as this ordinance is celebrated, do what I have done, to commemorate my death.' The Lord's Supper is a commemoration of Christ's death, not only because it was designed for that purpose, but also be- cause the bread and wine are the significant symbols of his broken body and shed blood. In this ordinance therefore Christ is set forth as a sacrifice which at once makes expiation for sin and ratifies the covenant of grace.
26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
What Paul had received of the Lord is recorded m the preceding verses. Here and in what follows we have his own inferences from the account which the Lord had given him. The first of those inferences is, that the Lord's supper is, and was designed to be, a proclamation of the death of Christ to continue until his second advent. Those who come to it, therefore, should come, not to satisfy hunger, nor for the gratification of social feelings, but for the definite purpose of bearing their testimony to the great fact of redemption, and to contribute their portion of influence to the preservation and propagation of the knowledge of that fact. For indicates the connection with what precedes. 'It is a commemoration of his death, for it is in its very nature a proclamation of that great fact.' And it was not a temporary institution, but one designed to continue until the consummation. As the Pass- over was a perpetual commemoration of the deliverance out of Egypt, and a prediction of the coming and death of the