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The Bible blessings of Jesus. Praise out of thankfulness
Stipe Jurič
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Generally two meals were served daily by the Hebrews. The first meal
of the day, termed the áriston in the NT, could be served at any time
from early morhing until noon. The second meal was the chief meal and
was served when the day's work ended. The NT calls it deîpnon. No
meal was considered complete without bread. Even the most ordinary
meals were sanctified by the benedictions, i.e. tranksgivings, offered to
God by the host, both at the beginning (at the breaking of bread) and at
the end of the meal (over a »cup of blessing«).
Since God is the creator and sustainer of life, it is natural that biblical
man should regard food and drink as divine gifts. The food and the
drink were hallowed by the recognition that they were gifts of God's
providence. Jesus accepted several times the invitation to the family
table and he himself sayed grace. At the feeding of the multitude he
gives thanks for the loaves and fish, at the Last Supper he gives thanks
for both the bread and the cup.
Important as food naturally was, it was never regarded as the sole
source of man's life. The man must be nourished by God too. The Bible
knows that »man does not live by bread only«. And Jesus himself is
the true bread. It is the purpose of the present article to shed light
upon our short prayer of thanks before and after a meal and to indi-
cate some reasons for the practice of it. The food is the gift of God
without return. Our thanksgiving appears as the response, a joyous
recognition to this continual grace.
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Hrčak ID:
53975
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Datum izdavanja:
20.9.1991.
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