1 Corinthians 11:26

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For as often as you eat this bread, and drink this cup, you do show the Lord's death till he comes.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

As often as we receive, we proclaim the death of the Lord. If death, we proclaim the remission of sins. If, as often as blood is shed, it is shed for the remission of sins, I ought always to accept him, that he may always dismiss my sins. I, who always sin, should always have a remedy. .

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

Paul shows that the Lord’s Supper is not a meal in the normal sense but spiritual medicine, which purifies the recipient if he partakes of it reverently. It is the memorial of our redemption, so that mindful of our Redeemer we might follow him more closely. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Cyprian of Carthage

AD 258

For Scripture says, "For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do show forth the Lord's death till He come."

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Cyril of Alexandria

AD 444

Proclaiming the death according to the flesh of the only begotten Son of God, that is, of Jesus Christ, and confessing his resurrection from the dead and his ascension into heaven, we celebrate the unbloody sacrifice in the churches, and we thus approach the spiritual blessings and are made holy, becoming partakers of the holy flesh and of the precious blood of Christ, the Savior of us all.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

For as Christ in regard to the bread and the cup said, Do this in remembrance of Me, revealing to us the cause of the giving of the Mystery, and besides what else He said, declaring this to be a sufficient cause to ground our religious fear upon:— (for when you consider what your Master has suffered for you, you will the better deny yourself:)— so also Paul says here: as often as you eat ye do proclaim His death. And this is that Supper. Then intimating that it abides unto the end, he says, till He come.

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The Apostolic Constitutions

AD 375

We also, our Father, thank Thee for the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which was shed for us and for His precious body, whereof we celebrate this representation, as Himself appointed us, "to show forth His death."

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