Meaning of BREAKING OF THE BREAD

It is used in the sense of celebration of the Lord's Supper in Acts. 2:42, 46, in memory of the Lord, as He established it before his departure (cf. Mt. 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19; 1 Cor. 11:24) .

From the passage of 1 Cor. 10:15-22 it is evident that the expression "table of the Lord," used in verse 21 contrasting it with the "table of demons," is synonymous with the "breaking of bread" (1 Cor. 10:15-22). . 10:16).

The wine is called "the cup of the Lord." The concept related to the Lord's table is the identification of the saints as a body with the death of Christ.

Hence it is stated: "You cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons." The cup is the communion of the blood of Christ, just as the bread is the communion of the body of Christ.

Every believer is committed to being faithful to this communion, which expresses the separation of the entire company of believers from that for which He died: from sin and the world, the very things with which the god of this world prepares his table. .

The "one bread" was an expression of the unity of the company of believers in Corinth, united in the communion of the death of Christ.

The expression "the Lord's Supper," found in 1 Cor. 11:20, is related to the remembrance of the Lord in the breaking of the bread and the sharing of the cup by the saints gathered in assembly. . This chapter 11 gives the positive character of the ordinance, just as chapter 10 gives rather the separation that is a consequence of it.

Thus, in 1 Cor. 11 appears the assembled assembly and the affection of the believers awakened by the memory of the love of the Lord in the presence of the memorials of that which constitutes the proof and expression of him, that is, his death.

It is the privilege of the Church to know God revealed as Father, led by the Lord Jesus Christ among them in his praises (cf. Ps. 22:22), and worshiping in the Spirit (John 4:22-24). In chapters 12-14 the organization, power and functions of the Church are given.