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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. The Old and the New. THE point may be one of no great importance, but carefulness of statement forbids us to declare, as many have done, that it was not till after the completion of the Passover feast, the supper of the old dispensation, that Jesus appointed the new memorial. For the record expressly says that it was " as they were eating" the paschal meal that he bade them henceforth eat in remembrance of him. Says Edersheim; " If now we ask ourselves at what part of the paschal supper the new institution was made, we cannot doubt that it was before the supper was completely ended." So say other commentators. Nor was the " cup after supper " something apart from and independent of that meal; it was a concluding cup of thePassover ritual. As the cup mentioned in Luke xxii. 17, might be termed a cup before the supper, though it was in fact the first course of the repast, so " the cup after supper " was simply its closing portion. As the coffee at the modern formal dinner might be said to come after the meal or on the other hand to be the concluding part thereof, so " the cup after supper "?which indeed came after the main portion of the supper, namely, the lamb and the bitter herbs?was in fact but the final course of the repast, not something after its full conclusion and thus entirely unrelated thereto. It was in giving the paschal bread that Jesus commanded them to eat in remembrance of him; it was in handing a paschal cup that he bade them drink in memory of his death. Indeed it may be said that the Passover celebration was not fully at an end till they "had sung an hymn " before they " went out," this hymn, a part of the Great Hallel, being the standard conclusion of the paschalrites. It is the general view which is given by Abbott in his Commentary on Matthew wh...