ance of the words, This is My body. We readily allow that there is an allusion to the formula of the Jews, who, in cele brating the Passover, when asked by their children, What is this ? replied, lil nos ?£' 5)13 HT, This is the body of the Lamb ichich our fathers ate in Egypt. — TO ff5>fj,d Mov, My body) un derstand here " ri v#sp b/tuv dtdopsvov," ichich is given for you, words implied in ver. 28, and expressed in Luke xxii. 19. — The Evangelist describes the matter briefly, as being well known by the practice of those for whom he writes. The expression, " This do in remembrance of Me" (which is recorded by St Luke), is implied in ver. 29.
27. To KOTTIP/OV, the cup) The same which was there already, from which they had all drunk. — fdvn^ all) Hence it is clear that even if one species1 were sufficient, it must rather be the wine than the bread. Thus also in 1 Cor. xi. 25, the expression oadxis, as often as, is employed in the mention of the cup [as well as of the bread].* Scripture expressed itself thus, fore seeing (Gal. iii. 8) what Rome would do.3 The disciples then represented the "many" (KoX\5iv) who are mentioned in ver. 28, where the reason of the injunction is given. Thus " many" and " all" are used together in 1 Cor. x. 17. The Holy Supper ought not to be a matter of indifference to Christians.
28. ToS™, this) The true blood of Christ is shown to be actually present, just as the blood of the victims was in the Mosaic formula cited in Heb. ix. 20 ; for that formula is here referred to. — -rfc xa/i/5js, of the New) in contradistinction to the Old : see Ex. xxiv. 8, sc. " And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said " Behold the blood of the covenant" etc. — diadfaqs, testament, disposition, dispensation) Many theologians of the Reformed Church, arid some even of the Evangelical communion,4 endeavoured in the last genera tion to reduce the whole scheme of Christian doctrine to the form of a covenant: a method pre-eminently suited to the
1 The word is here used in the technical sense in which Theologians em ploy it to denote separately the bread and wine, in contradistinction to each other.— (I. B.)
2 After eating the bread, the drinking of the cup is not left as a matter of our own option to do or not do as we think fit. — V. g.
3 Sc. refuse the cup to the Laity, etc. — (I. B.)
4 In Bengel, Reformed = Calvinistic : Evangelical — Lutheran. — (I. B.)