 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.  Benedictine Daily Prayer: A Short Breviary - Page 360edited by - 2005 - 2266 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Michael Ferrebee Sadler - 1897 - 634 pages
...give what appears to me to be the true translation, carrying with it the true sense : - " Seeing that there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one bread." What ia the " one bread " ? Evidently the Inward Part or Thing Signified of the Sacrament (I write,... | |
 | Norman Fox - 1898 - 176 pages
...words (Rev. Vers.),— " Seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body [margin, ' seeing that there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body ' ] : for we all partake of the one bread [margin, ' loaf ']," — it is too broad to refer to the local church. The Oriental " loaf " was but... | |
 | William Barrett Frankland - 1902 - 150 pages
...the - Blood of Christ ? The bread which we break, is it not fellowship of the Body of Christ? Because one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Look at Israel after the flesh ; are not they who eat the sacrifices in fellowship with the altar ?... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Morland Spencer - 1914 - 366 pages
...continuation of the above : " Seeing that we, who are many, are one bread [loafl, one body [seeing that there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body] : for we all partake of the one bread." The Sacrament has been variously regarded according to differences of religious temper and habit of... | |
 | Andrew Duff Heffern - 1922 - 440 pages
...fellowship of believers in a corporate unity in the glorified Christ; since in vs. 17, seeing that there is one bread, we who are many are one body; for we all partake of the one bread.20 In contradiction of any docetism he speaks here of the body and blood as that of the Christ;... | |
 | Adrien Nocent - 1977 - 336 pages
...necessary union of the members of the community, although he is well aware how difficult it is to maintain: "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Cor. 1o:17). In the Letter of St. James we find the same concern for the character of the Christian... | |
 | Hans Lietzmann - 1979 - 792 pages
...blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ? Seeing that there is one bread, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. APPENDIX I I Cor. xii. 3 No man can say Lord Jesus — except in holy Spirit. Rom. viii. 15 Ye received... | |
 | Mark Searle - 1981 - 100 pages
...struck Christians as significant from the very beginning. St. Paul put it well to the Corinthians: "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (1 Cor 10:17). Indeed, this was primarily how early Christians saw the Eucharist: they called it "the... | |
 | Peter F. Ellis - 1982 - 302 pages
...discussion in 10:14-22 about the differences between the table of the Lord and the table of demons: "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread" (10:17). In their celebration of the Eucharist, the Corinthians are forgetting that they are one body,... | |
 | Josemaría Escrivá - 1982 - 500 pages
...changed by God into the body of Christ. In this way we once more become united with Jesus, our sower. "Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread."18 We should always remember that if there is no sowing there is no harvest. That is why we... | |
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