Cup-of-blessing imagery uses a shared, overflowing, salvific, or covenant cup to picture fellowship with God, received salvation, participation in Christs blood, and sometimes shared suffering under his calling.
Cup-of-blessing imagery uses a shared, overflowing, salvific, or covenant cup to picture fellowship with God, received salvation, participation in Christs blood, and sometimes shared suffering under his calling.
A cup-and-participation motif in which the cup signifies assigned portion, covenant fellowship, thanksgiving, sacramental participation, overflowing provision, or shared suffering distinct from the cup of wrath motif.
These examples show how Cup of Blessing, Shared Cup, and Covenant Fellowship Imagery functions in biblical language, rhetoric, poetry, prophecy, narrative, or theological imagery.
the LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup
The cup pictures the believers assigned portion in the LORD.
my cup runneth over
The overflowing cup pictures abundant divine provision.
I will take the cup of salvation
The cup of salvation becomes a thanksgiving response to deliverance.
Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of?
The shared cup pictures participation in Christs suffering.
Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament
The cup signifies covenant participation in Christs blood.
This cup is the new testament in my blood
Jesus identifies the cup with the new covenant.
the cup of blessing which we bless
The cup of blessing expresses participation in the blood of Christ.
the cup of the Lord
The Lords cup marks exclusive fellowship incompatible with idolatry.
This cup is the new testament in my blood
The memorial cup proclaims covenant redemption.
as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup
The shared cup proclaims the Lords death until he comes.
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