If you turn to 1 Cor. 10:16, you will find that just as twelve loaves on the table of shewbread expressed what Israel was; viz., twelve tribes (Lev. 24:5, 6), so the one loaf of the Lord’s supper is the symbol to express the truth of what the Church on earth is; viz., one body. ‘We being many are one bread (or loaf) and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread (or loaf)” (1 Cor. 10:17). So that in partaking of the one loaf, the divinely-taught Christian owns his union with all true believers on the face of the whole earth, whatever their ignorance, weakness, or Christ-dishonoring divisions may be. But while he does this, he can only have fellowship with those who are seeking to walk in obedience to the Word, and in separation from manifested evil, The Holy Spirit of God would certainly never seek to maintain outward unity at the expense of inward holiness.[1] (Read 1 Cor, 5:6, 7, 8, 13).
I would just add here, that while the tenth chapter of this epistle speaks of the Lord’s table, the eleventh speaks more particularly of
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