And these two things are to be done in remembrance of Christ. Nothing is here ordered to be done except the breaking of bread and the eating of it–and the pouring out of wine and the drinking of it. There is nothing at all resembling the various intricate rules that are laid down for the celebration of the “mass” in the Church of Rome, or even for the celebration of the communion in the Church of England. Observe that Christ does not prescribe anything in the Lord’s Supper by way of elaborate ceremonies.
It is as simple and plain as it can possibly be–“This do in remembrance of Me.” Those who stumble here, stumble, surely, in the light–and their eyes must be blinded, for there are no stumbling blocks in the ordinance itself. There was nothing said by our Lord about any repetition of His one great Sacrifice by the offering of the unbloody sacrifice of the “mass” of which the priests of Rome make so much. It was not ordained at a great Temple festival, but at the Passover Supper, when Christ and His disciples were gathered around a table to feast together according to the ancient Jewish custom. It was not instituted in the Temple at Jerusalem, but in the upper room of a private house. In the institution of the Lord’s Supper there was not a solitary word said about the new rite being a sacrifice nor so much as a single syllable concerning an altar upon which it was to be offered. In neither case is there any excuse whatever for this perversion, for in each instance the regulations for its observance are perfectly simple and clear.
And the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper has been quite as shamefully misrepresented. You know how the ordinance of Believers' Baptism has been perverted, twisted and turned aside altogether from its pristine use. IT is a wonderful proof of the deep depravity of human nature that men have made so much mischief out of the too symbolical ordinances which were instituted by the Lord Jesus Christ. Kay, explaining the title in reference to the contents of the Psalm, " is presented to the Lord like the azkaraha-frankincense of the meat-offering, burnt with fire.“ This do in remembrance of Me…This do you, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.‘” Moreover, on the less likely hypothesis that the titles of these Psalms refer to their contents, not to their liturgical use, the sacrificial meaning of a memorial before God would not be absent. 7) were technically called in the Levitical ritual and these are among the many passages in which the marginal renderings of the Revised Version preserve translations more acceptable to the best Hebrew scholars than those printed in the text of that version.
2) and the incense placed on the shewbread and afterwards burnt (Lev. The best commentators explain the title of these two Psalms as a liturgical note signifying that the Psalms were to be used in connection with the offering of incense, or, as appears to be more probable, the offering of the Azkara, as the portion of the meal offering mixed with oil and burnt with incense on the altar (Lev. “The third and fourth passages are not without share in the obscurity which surrounds the titles of the Psalms but the probability is very strong that a memorial before God is denoted.
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