CHAPTER XL. THE LORD'S SUPPER. 1. What are the various phrases | Beware of the scribes, which love to go used in the Scriptures to designate the Lord's Supper, and their import? in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces, 39 and the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts: 40 which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damLUKE xiv. 12, 16, 17. Translated supper: nation. 12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. 15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God. 16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a his servant at supper time to say to them great supper, and bade many : 17 and sent that were bidden, 38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, himself. REV. xix. 17. 17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God: 18 that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men. (B) Apiorov, was originally the meal taken at sunrise, breakfast; later it signiFrom ήρι, early, fied the mid-day meal. perhaps from "Apns, because it was the Occurs principal meal used by soldiers. three times: 4 MATT. xxii. Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage. LUKE xi. 38. 38 And 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. LUKE XIV. 12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy 895 brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy (C) Aoxn, Reception, entertainment. to receive. LUKE V. 29 And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that LUKE xiv. 13. sat down with them. 13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14 and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. (D) 'Ayán, brotherly love, charity; natural affection. Metaphorically, the love feast, at which the primitive Christians used to assemble. The dyárat were banquets provided by the richer Christians, and shared by the poorer Christians; evils, however, led to their being abolished by the Council of Laodicea, at the beginning Occurs 117 of the 4th century. From ayanаw, to welcome, to love dearly. times: MATT. xxiv. 12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. LUKE xi. 42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. JOHN V. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. JOHN xiii. 85 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.. JOHN XV. 9, 10 (twice), 13. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his tinkling cymbal. And though I have 3 the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. I COR. xiv. 1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. I COR. xvi. 14, 24 14 Let all your things be done with charity. 24 My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen. 2 COR. ii. 4, 8. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. 8 Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him. 2 COR. v. 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 6 2 Cor. vi. By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned. 2 COR. viii. 7, 8, 24 7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also. 8I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love. 24 Wherefore shew ye to them, and be 19 PHIL. i. 9, 17. And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 17 But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel. PHIL. ii. I, 2. 1 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. COL. i. 4, 8, 13. 3 We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints. 8 Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son. COL. ii. 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to com prehend with all saints what is the breadth, 2 That their hearts might be comforted, and length, and depth, and height; and being knit together in love, and unto all to know the love of Christ, which passethriches of the full assurance of understandknowledge, that ye might be filled with ing, to the acknowledgment of the mys all the fulness of God. tery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ. EPH. iv. 2, 15, 16. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; 15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 16 from whom the 14 COL. ini. And above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness. I THESS. i. 3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; 13 and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves. 2 THESS. i. 3 We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth. 2 THESS. ii. 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 2 THESS. iii. 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. I TIM. i. things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love patience, meekness. 2 TIM. i. 7, 13. 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 13 Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. 2 TIM. ii. 22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 2 TIM. iii. 10. 10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience. 11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. TITUS ii. 2. 1 But speak thou the things which be come sound doctrine: that the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. PHILEMON 5, 7, 9. I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers. 5 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast to ward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; that the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which s in you in Christ Jesus. For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenier!, ex-yet for love's sake I rather beseech th being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. НЕВ. vi. 5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned. 14 And the grace of our Lord was ceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. I TIM. ii. 15 Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety. I ΤΙΜ. iv. 12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. I TIM. vi. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these 8 |