An Extract.
“IT is the remembrance of Christ Himself. It is that which attaches to Himself; it is not only the value of His sacrifice, but attachment to Himself. The apostle then shows us, if it is a dead Christ, who it is that died. Impossible to find two words the bringing together of which has so important a meaning—the death of the Lord. How many things are comprised in that He who is called the Lord had died! What love! what purposes! what efficacy! what results! The Lord Himself gave Himself up for us! We celebrate His death. At the same time it is the end of God’s relations with the world, on the ground of man’s responsibility, except the judgment..... We show forth this death until the rejected Lord shall return to establish new bonds of association by receiving us to Himself to have part in them. It is this which we proclaim in the ordinance when we keep it. Beside this, it is in itself a declaration that the blood on which the new covenant is founded has been already shed: it is established in this blood ... ..The object of the Spirit of God here is not to set before us the efficacy of the death of Christ, but that which attaches the heart to Him in remembering His death, and the meaning of the ordinance itself. It is a dead, betrayed Christ whom we remember.”