Section 2
and such a cup are the constituents of the Man- Savior's supper, which is a table (1 Cor. 10:21), a feast, set up by Him so that His believers may remember Him by enjoying Him as such a feast. Thus they testify of His rich and marvelous sal vation to the entire universe and display His re deeming and life-imparting death (1 Cor. 11:26).
Before His death the Man-Savior was a Lamb. But after His death and in His resurrection, He became a loaf. In the Old Testament feast of the Passover the enjoyment was of the lamb, but in the New Testament feast the enjoyment is of the loaf. The Lamb has become a loaf through the process of death and resurrection.
At the Lord's table we display, exhibit, the Lord's death. But we display His death in His resurrection. Whenever we come to the Lord's table, we should keep in mind that we are not in His death but in His resurrection. Because we are now participating in the loaf, in the Lord's resurrection we are displaying His death. This loaf includes not only the Lord Himself; it in cludes the Lord with us. Therefore, the loaf is no longer the individual Christ; it is now the cor porate Christ (1 Cor. 12:12), including the Lord Jesus and the believers.
In the institution of the Lord's table the loaf