1 Corinthians 10:16

The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? THE CUP OF BLESSING - answering to the Passover "cup of blessing," over which "blessing" was offered to God. It was in doing so that Christ instituted this part of the Lord's supper (; ). WE BLESS - "we," not merely ministers, but also the congregation. The minister 'blesses' (i:e., consecrates with blessing) the cup to be the sign of Christ's blood, and a means of our union with His glorified humanity; not by any priestly transmitted authority, but as representing the congregation, who virtually through him bless the cup. The consecration is the corporate act of the Church. The joint blessing by Him and t...

16._The cup of blessing _While the sacred Supper of Christ has two elements — bread and wine — he begins with the second. He calls it, _the cup of blessing_, as having been set apart for a mystical benediction. (574) For I do not agree with those who understand _blessing to _mean _thanksgiving_, and interpret the verb _to bless_, as meaning to _give thanks _I acknowledge, indeed, that it is sometimes employed in this sense, but never in the construction that Paul has here made use of, for the idea of Erasmus, as to supplying a preposition, (575) is exceedingly forced. On the other hand, the meaning that I adopt is easy, and has nothing of intricacy. To _bless the cup, _then, is to set it apart for this purpose, that it may be to us an emblem of the blood of Christ. This is done by the word of promise, when believers meet together according

15-22 Did not the joining in the Lord's supper show a profession of faith in Christ crucified, and of adoring gratitude to him for his salvation ? Christians, by this ordinance, and the faith therein professed, were united as the grains of wheat in one loaf of bread, or as the members in the human body, seeing they were all united to Christ, and had fellowship with him and one another. This is confirmed from the Jewish worship and customs in sacrifice. The apostle applies this to feasting with idolaters. Eating food as part of a heathen sacrifice, was worshipping the idol to whom it was made, and having fellowship or communion with it; just as he who eats the Lord's supper, is accounted to partake in the Christian sacrifice, or as they who ate the Jewish sacrifices partook of what was offered on their altar. It was denying Christianity; for communion with Christ, and communion with devi...

Verse 1 Corinthians 10:16. _THE CUP OF BLESSING_] The apostle speaks here of the Eucharist, which he illustrates by the כוס הברכה _cos habberacah_, cup of blessing, over which thanks were expressed at the conclusion of the passover. See this largely explained at the conclusion of _Clarke's notes on "_Matthew 26:75_"_, and in my _Discourse upon the Eucharist_, 8vo. 2d edit. 1814. _THE COMMUNION OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST?_] We who partake of this sacred cup, in commemoration of the death of Christ, are _made_ _partakers of his body and blood_, and thus have _fellowship_ with him; as those who partake of an _idol feast_, thereby, as much as they can, participate with the idol, to whom the sacrifice was offered. This I h

THE CUP OF BLESSING WHICH WE BLESS - The design of this verse and the following verses seems to be, to prove that Christians, by partaking of the Lord’s Supper, are solemnly set apart to the service of the Lord Jesus; that they acknowledge Him as their Lord, and dedicate themselves to him, and that as they could not and ought not to be devoted to idols and to the Lord Jesus at the same time, so they ought not to participate in the feasts in honor of idols, or in the celebrations in which idolaters would be engaged; see 1 Corinthians 10:21. He states, therefore: (1) That Christians are “united” and dedicated to Christ in the communion; 1 Corinthians 10:16. (2) That this was t

EXPOSITION 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 _Warnings against over confidence in relation to idolatry and other temptations._ 1 CORINTHIANS 10:1 MOREOVER; rather, _for. _He has just shown them, by his own example, the necessity for strenuous watchfulness and effort. In continuance of the same lesson, he teaches them historically that the possession of great privileges is no safeguard, and that the seductions, even of idolatry, must not be carelessly despised. Although the connection of the various paragraphs is not stated with logical precision, we see that they all bear on the one truth which he wants to inculcate, namely, that it is both wise and kind to limit our personal freedom out of sympathy

THE CUP OF BLESSING, WHICH WE BLESS,.... Meaning the cup of wine used in the Lord's supper, which being set apart for that service, is taken up, and the name of the Lord called upon over it; and he is blessed and praised for his wondrous love and grace, in the gift and mission of his Son, to shed his precious blood for us, for the remission of our sins; the whole church joining with the administrator, both in the act of blessing and praise over the cup, and in the participation of it. This cup is so called in allusion to the cup of wine used at common meals, or at the passover among the Jews, which they used to take and bless God with, and give him thanks for their mercies, and was commonly called כוס של ברכה, "the cup of blessing" c. "Three things (says R. Judah d) shorten a man's days and years; when they give him the book of the law to read, and he does not read, כוס של ברכה לברך, "t...

1 Corinthians 10:15. _I Speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar? What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?_ After they had offered the beasts as sacrifices to their idols, it was the custom to sell the carcases in the shambles. Christian men, going into the market to buy meat, and asking no questions, bought and ate portions of these sacrifices, and they did no wrong whatever. But there were some in the church who were very tender of conscience, and who said, «I

7. WARNINGS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 10 _ 1. Warnings from Israel's past history. (1 Corinthians 10:4)._ 2. Exhortations. (1 Corinthians 10:15). The same subject is continued with this chapter. The concluding paragraph of the previous chapter is illustrated from Israel's history, as the professing people of God. What happened unto them has a typical meaning for us. “Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples (types), and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world (ages) are come.” He speaks of “our fathers (Israel's fathers) were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea.” God had delivered them out of Egypt; the cloud covered them and the

Paul now deals directly with the problem of idol sacrifice. He appeals to the analogy of the Supper. The Eucharistic cup brings the worshipper into fellowship with Christ's blood, the loaf into fellowship with His body. Participating in the one loaf the many worshippers become one. So the eating of the Israelite sacrifices effects communion with the altar (so Philo, not OT). Let these analogies be applied. Neither the sacrifice nor the idol are real. But the sacrifices are offered to the demons not to God (Deuteronomy 32:17), and thus bring the participants into fellowship with demons. This involves an intolerable incompatibility; they cannot combine the Lord's cup and table with those of the demons. What madness to rouse the Lord's jealousy by giving Him such a rival (Deuteronomy 32:21)! are the