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Luk 22:20. Ὡσαύτως, in like manner) Therefore we ought not either to separate or to confound the two parts of the Holy Supper; as if the bread were sufficient without the cup, or as if the blood were already received with [that is, in the receiving of] the body.[233] The ancients esteemed it unmannerly to eat bread as if one were drinking it (“panem bibere,” to swallow it, as a thirsty person would, a drink): and it is not our part either, to eat the drink of the Lord (the cup of the Lord given us to drink).-τὸ ποτήριον, the cup) viz. He took and gave. The τὸ has the force of a relative referring back to Luk 22:17, where the cup is mentioned along with the wine (“the fruit of the vine,” Luk 22:18). For a noun, when employed twice, very often on its first introduction has no article [ΔΕΞΆΜΕΝΟς ΠΟΤΉΡΙΟΝ, Luk 22:17]; whereas, when next it occurs, it has the article. Mat 2:1; Mat 2:7 [ΜΆΓΟΙ-ΤΟῪς ΜΆΓΟΥς]; 1Co 8:1; Heb 2:8.-ΜΕΤᾺ ΤῸ ΔΕΙΠΝῆΣΑΙ) after the supper, not the Sacramental Supper: thus making a transition to greater subjects, and those about to be the last events.-ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου, the New Testament in My blood) This is equivalent to that phrase, My blood, which is of the New Testament. [Mat 26:28] Comp. note on 1Co 10:16.[234] So we find the expression, the promise of the Spirit, i.e. the Spirit that was promised, Gal 3:14.-τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἐκχυνόμενον, which is being poured out [shed] for you. This forms part of the Predicate (for the full cup is not “poured out,” but is drunk off), and is joined with the clause, ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου, in My blood, by apposition; cases similar to this occur, 2Co 8:23 [Apposition of the Genitive and Nominative, εἴτε ὑπὲρ Τίτου, κοινωνὸς ἐμός, etc.], Luk 11:28, where see the note; Rev 1:5; LXX. Lev 6:8, Al. 15; Gen 21:33 [ΤῸ ὌΝΟΜΑ ΚΥΡΊΟΥ, ΘΕῸς ΑἸΏΝΙΟς]; Deu 33:16.
[233] i.e. In receiving the bread; which, according to the Romish doctrine of ‘concomitance,’ not only contains the very body, but also the blood.-E. and T.
[234] He who partakes of this cup partakes of the New Testament sealed with the blood of Christ, and is a spiritual partaker of the body and blood of Christ Himself.-E. and T.