A. LAST WEEK:
1. Terms to describe the Lord’s Supper.
2. The historical setting.
B. THIS LESSON:
1. Concepts and practices in history.
2. These in the setting of the institutions of the Supper.
A. FIRST CENTURY CIRCUMSTANCES.
1. One bishop different from elders and deacons.
2. A variety of heresies – Gnostics, Docetism, Adoptionism.
B. STATEMENTS OF THE FATHERS:
1. Administered by the bishops.
a. Ignatius #1a. Martyred in 110 AD.
b. Hippolytus #2a. 3rd Century.
2. Liturgical prayers – not bound.
a. Didache #1b. Syria 2nd Century, “Teachings of the Apostles.”
b. Hippolytus #2a & b.
3. Eternal life. Salvation and forgiveness in eating.
a. Ignatius. #3a.
b. Gregory of Nyssa #4, 11.
a. Gregory of Nyssa. Ibid.
b. Cyril of Jerusalem and Tertullian. 155-222 AD.
c. Ambrose. #4, 12.
C. THESE WRITINGS OFTEN USED INCORRECTLY TO ESTABLISH PRACTICE.
A. THE ORDER:
1. Took bread, blessed (gave thanks), brake, in remembrance, body.
2. Took the cup, gave thanks, gave it to all, memorial, blood.
B. THE ELEMENTS:
1. Unleavened bread (Matt. 26:26; Ex. 12:19). Our Passover (1 Cor. 5:7-8).
2. Fruit of the vine, oinos, grape juice, fermented or fresh.
C. THE DAY (Acts 20:7).
D. THE PURPOSE (1 Cor. 11:23-25, 29).
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