The Pulpit Commentary — 1 Corinthians — Section 361

is broken for you. The word " broken " is of external evidences of the truth of the gospel doul,tful authenticity. Some mf\nuscripts history. The &vis omitted in the Greek, to hnve "given," 1md one (D) o milder word indicate the certainty of Christ's comino-. for "broken," as though to avoid any con- The same Greek idiom is hopefully an°d· tradiction of John xix. 36, where, however, tenderly used in Gal. iv. 19. the word is "shall not be crushed.'' Since Ver. 27.-And drink this cnp. This ought the participle is omitted altogether by 11, to be rendered, or drink this cup. It seems A, B, C, there can be no doubt that it is a to be one of the extremely few instances in gloss, and accordingly the Revise,! Vnsion which the translators of our Authorize,! reads," which is for you." 'fhe "broken" Version were led by biaJ! into unfaithful ' Is nevertheless invoked in the " he brake rendering. They may have persuaded it," which was a po.rt of the ceremony as themselves 1hat the apostle must have originally illustrated. The breaking of the meant" and;" but their duty as translators bread ought not, therefore, to be abandoned, wns to translate what be said, not what they as in the case when " wafers" are used. supposed him to have meant. What be This do. St. Luke also has this clause, meant wa~ that it was possible to partake which is not found in St. Mo.tthew or St. in a wrong spirit either of the bread or the Mark. The variations show that it was the cup. King J o.mes's translators thought main fact which was essential, not the exact that, by rendering the word or, they might words spoken. In remembrance of me. seem to favour communion in ono kind The words may itlso be rendered, for a only. St. Paul's meaning we.s that u memorial of me, or to bring me to your re- man might take either element of the membrance. sacrament unworthily. Unworthily. We Ver. 25.-When he had supped (see Luke ru·e all "unworthy"-" unworthy so much xxii. 27). The cup, like the c~s ha-berachah, as to gather up the crumbs under Christ's was given after the meal was ended. The table; " yet not one of us need eut or drink new testament; rather, the neu, covenant. u111corthily, that is, in a careless, irreverent, The Greek word diatheke is indeed a "will," definnt spirit. Guilty of. He draws on him- or" testament;" but in the LXX., on which self the penalty due to "crucifying to him- the Greek of the apostles was formed, it self the Son of God afresh," by "putting always sto.nda for berith, covenant. 'fhe him to un open shumc." Jew• knew nothing of the practice of Ver. 28.-Let a man eumine himself. "making wills" till they learnt it from the The verb means " let him test his own Romans. The only passage of the New feelings;" put them to the proof, to see Testament (an expression derived from this whether they be sincere or not. He musb very passage through the Vulgate) in which "wo.sh his hands in inuoceney," nnd so diatheke means a "testnment" is Heb. ix. come to Go,!'s altar (see lllatt. v. 22, 2:-l; 16, whero the writer reverts for a moment 2 Cor. xiii. 5). And BO. Soberly, thnt i"s ; only to this signification or the word to in- seriously, humbly, nnd with duo reverence. troduce a passing illustration. In my blood. Vor. :!9.-Unworthily. 'fho word is not The cup was I\ symbol of the blood of genuiue here, being repeated from ver. 27; Christ, because the gospel covenrmt was it is omitted by N, A, B, C. Eateth and ratified by the shedding of his blood. The drinketh damnation to himself; rather, Jews had an absolute horror, at once eatet/1 and drinketh j11Clgmeiit to himself. religious and physical, of tasting blood. There is reason to believe that the word, This was the reason why the Synod of "dumnatiou" once bad a much milder Jerusalem forbade even to the Gentiles menuing in English than thut which it now the en.ting of "things stmngleJ." If the populnrly bcnrs. In King J,11nos's timo upostlcs had not fully understood tlrnt our it prohnbly did not of necessity meun more Lord wus only using the ordinary lauguago tl,an "an unfavournblo vordict." Otber- of Semitio imagery, and describing only u wiso this would be the most unfortunuto eacmmental symbol, the words, "'l'his is mistrnnslalion iu tho whole Dible. It hns my blood," would have thrilled them with probably kept thousands, o.s it kept Goethe, horror and repulsion. from Holy Communion. We see from ver. Ver. 26.-Ye do show the Lord's death. 32 that this "j udgmont" bud n purely The word liternlly menns, ye an11ounce, or merciful and disciplimuy churactor. Not proclaim, with reference to the repetition of discerning; rather, if he discern not, tho the actual words used by our Lord. It will Lord's body. Any one who uppronchcs tho be seen that St. Paul does not lend the Lord's Supper in u spirit of levity or defiance, smallest snnction to the "unfathomable not discriminating between it nnd commo11 suporstition" of a material tmnsubslan- food, dmws on himself, by so e,iting and tiation. Till he oome. Accordingly the drinking, a judgmont which is defined in antiquity nnd unbroken continuance of tho uext verse. this holy rite is one of the many strong Ver. 30.-Manyare weak and sickly among  THE FIRST EPiSTLE TO 'l'HE CORINTHIANS. [ea. x1. 1-34.