act, the accompanying words, without which the ἀνάμνησις is imperfect. ὅσά- κις ἐὰν (late Gr. for ἄν) πίνητε: “so many times as (quotiescunque) you drink (it)”’"—the cup of the context; not ‘so often as you drink” (Hf.), sc. at any table where Christians meet. Our Lord prescribed no set times; P. assumes that celebration will be frequent, for he directs that, however frequent, it must be guided by the Lord’s instructions, so as to keep the remembrance of Him unimpaired. Ver. 26. Familiarity helped to blunt in the Cor. their reverence for the Eucharist; hence the repeated ὁσάκις ἐάν: ‘for so many times as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you are pro- claiming the Lord’s death, until He come”’. γὰρ has its proper explicative force: Christ bade His disciples thus perpetually commemorate Him (24 f.: ποιεῖτε, “go on to do ’—sustained action), ‘for it is thus that you publish His death, and in this form the testimony will continue till He comes again.” καταγγέλλετε (see parls.), on this view ind., is the active expression of ἀνάμνησις: “Christus de beneficio mortis suae nos admonet, et nos coram hominibus id recognovimus ” (Cv.). The ordinance is a verbum visi- bile, a “‘ preaching ”’ of the entire Church in silent ministry: ‘ Christi sanguis scripturarum omnium sacramento ac tes- timonio effusus predicatur’’ (Cyprian, quoted by Ed.). ἄχρι οὗ ἔλθῃ states the terminus ad quem given in the words of Jesus at the Table, Luke xxii. 18, Matt. xxvi. 29. The rite looks forward as well as backward; a rehearsal of the Passion Supper, a foretaste of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Paul thus ‘“‘ associ- ates with the καταγγέλλειν of the cele- brants the fear and trembling that belong to the Maranatha of xvi. 22) (Mr.). The pathos and the glory of the Table of the Lord were alike lost on the Corinthians.
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25; Rom. ν. 12, Xi. 26; Acts Vii. 8, xvii. 33, XXVili. 14. in Rev., six times in GG.