nded, ver. 2, after which
Christ washed his disciples' feet. And thereafter we read, ver. 12,
_resumptis vestibus rursum ad caenam ordinariam consedisse._(1242) The
dividing of the passover into two services or two suppers had no warrant
at all from the first institution of that sacrament, for which cause they
think it not likely that Christ would have thus divided it according to
the device and custom of the Jews in latter times, for so much as in
marriage (and much more in the passover) he did not allow of that which
from the beginning was not so. Neither seemeth it to them any way
probable, that Christ would have interrupted the eating of the passover
with the washing of his disciples' feet before the whole paschal supper
was ended, and they had done eating of it.

_Sect_. 5. But others (and those very judicious too) are of opinion, that
that second course whereunto Christ sat down after the washing of his
disciples' feet, and at which he told them that one of them should betray
him, was not an ordinary or common supper (because the paschal supper was
enough of itself to satisfy them), but a part of the paschal supper. And
from the Jewish writers they prove that so the custom was to divide the
passover into two courses or services. As for that wherein Christ dipped
the sop, they take it to have been the sauce which was used in the paschal
supper, called _charoseth_, of which the Hebrews write, that it was made
of the palm tree branches, or of dry figs, or of raisins, which they
stamped and mixed with vinegar till it was thick as mustard, and made like
clay, in memory of the clay wherein they wrought in Egypt, and that they
used to dip both the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs into this
sauce. And as touching that place, John xiii., they expound it by the
custom of the Jews, which was to have two services or two suppers in the
passover; and take those words, ver. 2, "Supper being ended," to be meant
of the first service, and sitting down again to supper, ver. 12, to be
meant of the second service.

_Sect._ 6. If those two opinions could be reconciled and drawn together
into one, by holding that that second course whereunto Christ sat down
after the washing of his disciples' feet, was (for the substance of it) a
common supper, but yet it hath been and may be rightly called the second
service of the paschal supper, for that it was eaten the same night
wherein the paschal lamb was eaten, so should all the difference