Knowling, Expositor's Greek New Testament). The introduction of the in this quotation seems to emphasize here the Lord's Supper as distinct from the social meals of verse 46, where the Christians shared their food with gladness and simplicity of heart (R.J. Those baptized on Pentecost in Jerusalem continued steadfastly in the breaking of the bread (Acts 2:42). What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and shame those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you (I Corinthians 11:20-22). Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper. This can be clearly seen as Paul made clear in his letter to the Corinthians.
The Lord's Supper had been instituted by Jesus and handed down to the apostles who taught the early Christians. The Corinthians had perverted the Lord's Supper. The Lord's Supper is not the agape, the name of the love feasts of the early Christians, the meals provided by the members of the church for religious fellowship and especially for charity for the poor and the widows of the Christian community. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.' For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till He comes (I Corinthians 11:23-26).
∿or I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took bread and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, 'Take, eat this is My body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of Me.' In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, 'This cup is the new covenant in My blood.
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