Because there is one bread. Paul shows here how vital to the church is the sharing/participating in the Lord's Supper (Holy Meal). This was being defiled by their taking part in the idol's feasts. [Since Jesus built only one church (one spiritual congregation of the saved), the one bread and one cup are a symbolic/reality of the oneness with God which we have through the death of Christ.] Lipscomb says: "We who partake [participate] are members individually, but we constitute one body of Christ because we all draw our life from the blood and partake of one bread, the body of Christ. So we are one body in Christ."

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Old Testament