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Luke makes use of table fellowship metaphors and language as he systematically develops Jesus' table fellowship to teach about the Eucharist, about Christian liturgy, and ultimately, about Jesus Christ and His kingdom.
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Luke makes use of table fellowship metaphors and language as he systematically develops Jesus' table fellowship to teach about the Eucharist, about Christian liturgy, and ultimately, about Jesus Christ and His kingdom. This is a dominant matrix in Luke's Gospel. Table fellowship with God was a natural metaphor for Jewish Christians to describe how God communicates his intentions of salvation. In the various covenants made between Yahweh and His people, a meal often sealed the covenant. An example is the meal on Mt. Sinai in Exodus 24:9-11 where Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy elders "beheld God, and ate and drank." It was within this setting that Luke records the table fellowship of Jesus. God feeding His people in the intimacy of the table would not have been unusual for the Jews. But for God to become flesh and sit at table with them and give them food from His own,...
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