SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE
"The spiritual significance of the bread and wine of the Lord’s Supper is not discerned by the worshipper who looks merely upon the things that are seen."
N. L. C. in Church Messenger, Jan. 36.
No; for ‘‘things that are seen’’ nowadays have no "spiritual significance." What do "individual cups" signify," any way? Division in the body of Christ. Is that a little thing? Take a look at "two or more cups." Any "spiritual significance" there? What is it? Now contrast with these expressions the Bible, the "spiritual significance," "And he took a cup."—Mt. 26:27. "Numbers amount to nothing, eh ?" Why not take tri-immersion then? Can you get the "spiritual significance" of "one baptism" (hen baptisma, Eph. 4:5) by seeing three baptisms instead of one? Can you? Can you get the "spiritual significance" hen baptisma, one dip, by sprinkling? You better take from "the Lord’s Supper" what the Lord did not put there, and put there what the Lord put there if you expect to get any "spiritual significance" from the Lord. Some sell out for a mess of pottage.—Heb. 12:16.
Again: Jesus took a cup. Had it any "spiritual significance"? He said, "This cup is the new Covenant." —I Cor. 11 :25. Could that "cup" have signified that had it been cups? He took a loaf. He said, "This is my body !" Yes, one loaf (eis artos, I Cor. 10:17, 18), tou henos artou, the one loaf, and those who teach something different teach "another gospel" or "pervert the gospel of Christ."—Gal. 1:6.
Loaf, cup, and contents of the cup each points to a specified object here for its "spiritual significance," and you truly say: "We may see greater wisdom in the Lord’s way and be able to escape more rationally and fully some of the temptations of Satan so prevalent in our day," if we read the Bible more. You can not fool the Lord.
H. C. Harper