For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
Ver. 23. For I have received] Rectum est regula sui et obliqui. The apostle seems to rectify them, by reducing them to the first institution; and by letting them know that he had his authority from heaven; he received what he delivered, and delivered what he received, keeping nothing back, Acts 20:27 .
The same night, &c.] It was his last bequeath to his Church, for a καθαρτηριον αλεξικακον, as Ignatius hath it, a sovereign both purgative and preservative.