Difference between revisions of "Table Of The Lord"

Table Of The Lord <ref name="term_62952" />  

<p> a phrase taken from Scripture, used to designate the holy table, or altar, of the [[Christian]] [[Church]] ( 1 Corinthians 10:21). In the Old Test. the words table and altar appear to have been applied indifferently to the same thing ( Ezekiel 41:22). Among other terms which have been used to designate the Lord's table, it is obvious to mention the word "altar" as having been so employed; it is a term, however, which, though it may easily be borrowed in a figurative sense from the ancient Scriptures, is neither found in the New Test. in the sense now referred to, nor has it the sanction of the Church. In the first Prayer-book of king [[Edward]] VI, published in 1549, which may be considered as a connecting link between the [[Missal]] and our present [[Prayer]] book, the word "altar" occurs in the [[Communion]] [[Service]] at least three times: but in the service of 1552 (the second Prayer-book of Edward VI) it is in every instance struck out; and if another expression is used in place of it, that expression is The Lord's Table. This circumstance is the more worthy of remark, because wherever in the older of these books the phrase "God's Board" was adopted as descriptive of "the Lord's Table" it was allowed to remain. (See [[Altar]]). </p>

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