Commentary on the Epistles to the Corinthians John Calvin (continued)
John Calvin efficacy of that one oblation should be everlasting. What remains now is, that we eat, 292 not once a-year, but continually.
8. Now, in the solemnity of this sacred feast we must abstain from leaven, as God commanded the fathers to abstain. But from what leaven? As the outward passover was to them a figure of the true passover, so its appendages were figures of the reality which we at this day possess. If, therefore, we would wish to feed on Christ's flesh and blood, let us bring to this feast sincerity and truth Let these be our loaves of unleavened bread Away with all malice and wickedness, for it is unlawful to mix up leaven with the passover In fine, he declares that we shall be members of Christ only when we shall have renounced malice and deceit. In the meantime we must carefully observe this passage, as showing that the ancient passover was not merely {μνημοσυνον}, 293 a memorial of a past benefit, but also a sacrament, representing Christ who was to come, from whom we have this privilege, that we pass from death to life. Otherwise, it would not hold good, that in Christ is the body of the legal shadows. (Colossians 2:17.) This passage will also be of service for setting aside the sacrilege of the Papal mass. For Paul does not teach that Christ is offered daily, but that the sacrifice having been offered up once for all, it remains that the spiritual feast be celebrated during our whole life.
1 Corinthians 5:9-13
1 Corinthians 5:9-13 9. I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 9. Scripsi vobis in Epistola, Ne commisceamini scortatoribus: 10. Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.
10. Neque in universum scortatoribus mundi hujus, vel avaris, vel rapacibus, vel idololatris: quandoquidem debuissetis ex hoc mundo exire.
11. But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
11. Nunc autem scripsi vobis, Ne commisceamini: si is qui frater nominatur, vel scortator sit, vel avarus, vel idololatra, vel maledicus, vel ebriosus, vel rapax: cum tali ne cibum quidem sumatis.
12. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?
12. Quid enim mea refert extraneos iudicare? an non eos qui intus sunt iudicatis?
292"I1 ne reste plus sinon que nous en soyons nourris;" — "Nothing remains, but that we be nourished by it."
293Our author most probably alludes to Exodus 12:14, "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial," etc. The term used in the Septuagint is {μνημοσυνον}, answering to the Hebrew term {.{זכרון--- Ed