TABLE of the Lord. This was the Altar of Burnt-Offerings: See its Article. The Lord was considered in his Temple, as a Monarch in his Palace. Tables were set for him, he was served with Bread, with Wine, Salt, Victuals: Lamps were lighted up for him, Perfumes were burnt for him. The Name of the Tables of Moses more particularly belongs to the Altar of Shew-Bread, because there was served up Bread, Wine, Mal. i. 7, 12.and Salt. Malachi complains that the Table of the Lord was contemned; Mensa Domini despecta est; because they offered on the Altar of Burnt-Offerings such vile Animals which had not the Qualities that the Law of Victims required. In the Books of the New Testament, the Table of the Lord is the holy Altar, on which was offered the unbloody Sacrifice of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ: Non potestis mensæ Domini participes esse, & mensæ demoniorum. Jesus 1 Cor. x. 21.Christ, in his Gospel, represents his Kingdom, or the Heavenly Kingdom, as a Feast, where the Elect are sat at Table; That ye may eat and drink at my table, in my Kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve Luke xxii. 30.tribes of Israel.
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