1 Corinthians 11:26

1 Corinthians 11:26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, [1] ye proclaim the Lord's death hold it forth as, to you, a certain fact till he come. [2] This clearly shows not only that the observance of this ordinance was designed to continue from the very time of its first institution till the second appearing of the Lord Jesus, but that the belief of the one as the great accomplished fact of the past, and of the other as the great expected fact of the future, was as the substance of all Christianity proclaimed by every participant of the Lord's Supper, and the faith of the one and the hope of the other are the two “wings as eagles,” on which the Christian mounts up heavenward.

[1] The oldest MSS. want “this” here.

[2] The scholar should observe that άν before έλθη is justly omitted in the best text (including the oldest MSS.) Its presence in the received text obscures the certainty of the event, which its absence conveys.