Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

1 Corinthians 11:26

Familiarity helped to blunt in the Cor [1762] 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 proclaiming the Lord's death, until He come”. γὰρ has its proper explicative force: Christ bade His disciples thus perpetually commemorate Him (1 Corinthians 11:24 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 [1763], is the active expression of ἀνάμνησις : “Christus de beneficio mortis suae nos admonet, et nos coram hominibus id recognovimus” (Cv [1764]). The ordinance is a verbum visi-bile, a “preaching” of the entire Church in silent ministry: “Christi sanguis scripturarum omnium sacramento ac testimonio effusus prœdicatur ” (Cyprian, quoted by Ed [1765]). ἄχρι οὗ ἔλθῃ states the terminus ad quem given in the words of Jesus at the Table, Luke 22:18; Matthew 26:29. 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 “associates with the καταγγέλλειν of the celebrants the fear and trembling that belong to the Maranatha of 1 Corinthians 16:22 ” (Mr [1766]). The pathos and the glory of the Table of the Lord were alike lost on the Corinthians.

[1762] Corinth, Corinthian or Corinthians.

[1763] indicative mood.

[1764] Calvin's In Nov. Testamentum Commentarii.

[1765] T. C. Edwards' Commentary on the First Ep. to the Corinthians. 2

[1766] Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary (Eng. Trans.).

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