1 Corinthians 11:26 Meaning and Explanation
“For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.”
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Read Full Chapter →Eating the bread and drinking the cup proclaims the Lord's death until He returns.
What Does 1 Corinthians 11:26 Mean?
Paul draws out the meaning of the meal. Each time the church eats the bread and drinks the cup, it proclaims the Lord's death, and it does so until He comes again. The supper looks back to the cross and forward to His return.
The table holds the whole gospel in a single act. It announces a death, the Lord's self-offering, and it waits in hope for His coming, so that memory and expectation meet at the same bread and cup. Every celebration is a proclamation, a sermon without words, declaring to the gathered and to the watching world what Christ has done. And the phrase till he come keeps the church's eyes lifted; the meal is not an ending but a foretaste of the day when faith gives way to sight.
1 Corinthians 11:26 in the Original Language
katangello (καταγγέλλω), 'shew' -- to proclaim or announce openly, to declare abroad.
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What does 1 Corinthians 11:26 mean?
Eating the bread and drinking the cup proclaims the Lord's death until He returns.