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he dwells more on the consideration of the meat , ver. 21 ; men- tion is however made of the cup, because it is inseparable from the other element. The interchange of the order here is a proof, that the body of Christ is received separately, not inasmuch as it has the blood accompanying it. In mentioning food more respect is paid to meat, than drink ; but in the mystery of redemption the blood is oftener named, than the body of Christ. Hence Paul’s promiscuous arrangement [sometimes the bread , at other times the wine coming first]. — rr\g g vXoylug, of blessing) on that account it is distinguished from a common cup, Matt. xxvi. 27. — 6 evXo- yoZ/tev, which we bless) plural as in we break , supply, we, ministers and believers, each for his own part : comp. ch. v. 4. All, who bless and break together, enter the more closely into com- munion.— xoivuvta, communion) This predicate used in the ab- stract shows that the subject should likewise be taken in the abstract. The cup , which we use , i.e. the use of the cup (comp. Mark vii. 30, note). He who drinks of this cup, is a partaker of the blood of Christ ; so ver. 18, they who eat. The highest degree of reality is implied: comp. ver. 19, note. — roZ a'iparog, of the blood) that was shed. Now, he who is a partaker of the blood and body of Christ, is also a partaker of the sacrifice, that was offered on the cross : comp. ver. 18 ; a partaker in short of Christ himself ; comp, what is put in antithesis to this, ver. 20, at the end. — rov cipro v) There is a construction similar to this, vii. 17 : and in the LXX., Num. xxxii. 4. Trjg svXoy/ag is here again to be supplied; the bread of blessing. — roZ rog roZ
XpitroZ, of the body of Christ) of the body delivered up to death for us ; comp, the opposite [the antithesis] to this, ver. 20, at the beginning. The body of Christ is also the Church, as in the following verse ; but here the very body of Christ is intended, from which the blood is contradistinguished.
17. "On, since) He proves, that the cup and the bread are the communion; for the bread by itself does not make them that eat it, become one body; but the bread does so, in so far as it is communion, etc. — slg uprog ( one bread), viz. there is [and indeed it is such bread as is broken, and carries with it (implies in the participation of it) the communion of the body of Christ. — V. g.] — oi n oXXoi, the many) believers [Eng. Yers. is different, “ We being many are one bread and one body”]. — •
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