• The illumination about the practice. “I have received of the Lord” (I Corinthians 11:23). What Paul speaks about the Lord’s Supper is a Divine revelation to him. Thus what he says is authoritative and correct. • The initiating of the practice. “The Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed” (I Corinthians 11:23). Jesus Christ initiated the Lord’s Supper. It was not an invention of mankind. First, the time of the initiating. “The same night in which he was betrayed.” Christ initiated the
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