Barton Stone on one loaf!
Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2024 11:51 am
Here are Barton Stones views on using only one loaf in the lords supper
. In the Lord's supper there should be but one loaf, to represent the Lord's body that suffered on the Cross--Two or more loaves destroy the very idea of the ordinance, as not representing the one body of Christ suffering and dying. The word artos is translated loaf in the text very properly; and this is the translation very commonly given by King James' translators. See Matt. 14, 17, 19 Mark. 6; 33, 44, 52, Luke 9, 13. Matt. 15. 24, 36.-16, 19, Luke 11, 5, John 6, 8, Mark 8, 14 &c.
2ly. This one loaf should be unleavened. This was the very kind of bread first used by Christ when he instituted the supper; for he used the bread of the passover which, must, by law, be unleavened. As the passover was to be kept without leaven; and as Christ our passover is sacrificed for us, therefore, says Paul, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice, and wickedness, but with unleavened sincerity and truth." 1 Cor. 5. 8.--Leaven is the scripture emblem of sincerity and truth. How preposterous then, to have the one loaf, which is to represent the body of Christ, leavened, /177/ as if he were malicious and insincere! Let it be unleavened, to represent his benevolence, truth and sincerity.
3rd. "We the many, are one body; for we all participate of that one loaf." None but christians who are united in the one body, are permitted to participate of the one loaf. They are joint partakers of the blood and body of Christ, and they alone; for they alone can keep the feast with unleavened sincerity and truth. Alas! for the world of professors, who, divided into factions, are quarreling at the feast, endeavoring to monopulise it to their several parties--and woe to those, who presume to keep it, not being in the one body!the one loaf issue from the Gospel Messenger about 1831
. In the Lord's supper there should be but one loaf, to represent the Lord's body that suffered on the Cross--Two or more loaves destroy the very idea of the ordinance, as not representing the one body of Christ suffering and dying. The word artos is translated loaf in the text very properly; and this is the translation very commonly given by King James' translators. See Matt. 14, 17, 19 Mark. 6; 33, 44, 52, Luke 9, 13. Matt. 15. 24, 36.-16, 19, Luke 11, 5, John 6, 8, Mark 8, 14 &c.
2ly. This one loaf should be unleavened. This was the very kind of bread first used by Christ when he instituted the supper; for he used the bread of the passover which, must, by law, be unleavened. As the passover was to be kept without leaven; and as Christ our passover is sacrificed for us, therefore, says Paul, let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice, and wickedness, but with unleavened sincerity and truth." 1 Cor. 5. 8.--Leaven is the scripture emblem of sincerity and truth. How preposterous then, to have the one loaf, which is to represent the body of Christ, leavened, /177/ as if he were malicious and insincere! Let it be unleavened, to represent his benevolence, truth and sincerity.
3rd. "We the many, are one body; for we all participate of that one loaf." None but christians who are united in the one body, are permitted to participate of the one loaf. They are joint partakers of the blood and body of Christ, and they alone; for they alone can keep the feast with unleavened sincerity and truth. Alas! for the world of professors, who, divided into factions, are quarreling at the feast, endeavoring to monopulise it to their several parties--and woe to those, who presume to keep it, not being in the one body!the one loaf issue from the Gospel Messenger about 1831