ὅτι οὐκέτι 2 οὗ μὴ φάγω ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἕως ὅτου πληρωθῇ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ
17. Καὶ δεξάµενος ποτήριον, εὐχαριστήσας etme, “ Ad-
18. λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν, ὅτι ὅ οὐ
τοῦ Θεοῦ.” Bete τοῦτο, καὶ διαµερίσατε ἑαυτοῖς 4: μὴ πίω δ ἀπὸ τοῦ γεννήµατος τῆς ἀμπέλου, ἕως ὅτου Ἰ ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐλθη. 19. Καὶ λαβὼν ἄρτον, εὐχαριστήσας ἔκλασε, καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς, λέγων, “'Τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ σῶμά pou,® τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν διδόµενον" τοῦτο ποιεῖτε cis τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν.' 20. Ὡσαύτωφ καὶ τὸ ποτήριον μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι, λέγων, ''Τοῦτο τὸ ποτήριον, F καινὴ διαθήκη ἐν τῷ αἵματί µου, τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἐκχυνόμενον.ὃ 21. Πλὴν ἰδού, ἡ χεὶρ τοῦ παραδιδόντος µε μετ ἐμοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς τραπέζης. 1 Omit δώδεκα ΜΒΡ (Tisch., W.H.). LX omit awoe. Τ.Ε. = 6, εἰς, 2 $SABL omit ουκετι (W.H.), found in D al. (Tisch.). 3 For εξ avrov S$BL minusc. have αυτο.
4 εις εαντους in ScBCLM 1, 13, 69 al. (Tisch., W.H.). D al have εαντοις =: T.R.
5 Omit or. BCDGL al. (W.H.), found in S§XTA al. (Tisch.).
6 After maw SBKLMN al. have απο tov νυν. DG 1 have the phrase, but before ov μη.
7 So in DX al. (Tisch.). SQBL have ον (W.H.).
8 From το νπερ v., νετ. 19, to the end of ver. 20, found in nearly all Greek codd. and verss., is omitted in D a ff, i; b e syrr. cur. sin. more or less rearrange the matter referring to the Supper. Syr. cur. has ver. 19 before vv. 17, 18. Syr. sin. has this order: 19, 20 a, 17, 20 b, 18 (‘‘And He took bread and gave thanks over it and brake, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which I give for you: thus do in remembrance of me. And after they had supped He took the cup and gave thanks over it, and said, Take this, share it among yourselves. This is my blood, the new Testament. For I say unto you that henceforth I will not drink of this fruit,
until the Kingdom of God shall come,” Mrs. Lewis).
narrates with great significance. He seems to write with the practice of the Apostolic Church in view in reference to the Holy Communion.—Ver. 15. πρὸ τοῦ µε παθεῖν: the last passover He will eat with them is looked forward to with solemn, tender feeling.—Ver. 16. λέγω yap: the words of Jesus here reported answer to words given in Mt. and Mk. at a later stage, {.ε., at the close of their narrative of the institution of the Supper. At this point Lk.’s narrative follows a divergent course.—Ver. 17. δεξάµενος, having received from the hand of another (different from λαβὼν, ver. 19), handed to Him that He might drink.—evyapio- τήσας, this solemn act gives to the hand- ing round of the cup here mentioned the character of a prelude to the Holy Supper: (‘quaedam quasi prolusio 5.
Coenae,”’ Beng. in reference to vv. 15-18). If the reading of D and some Old Latin codd. which makes ver. 19 stop at σῶμά μον and omits ver. 20 be the true text (vide critical notes above), then Lk.’s account of the institution really begins in ver. 17, and what happened according to it was this: Jesus first sent round the cup, saying: take this and divide it among yourselves, then took bread, broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying: this is my body. In this version two things are to be noted: first, the inversion of the actions; second, the omission of all re- ference to the blood in connection with the wine. The existence of such a read- ing as that of D and the Old Latin ver- sion raises questions, not only as to Lk.’s text, but as to church practice in the Apostolic age and afterwards; or, assum-