ix. However this may be, there is clearly discoverable at the Last

Supper of Jesus the Satan that Jahveh raised up against Solomon in the presence of mythical Judas ("Satan entered into him," says John), and in the whole scene the table of Wisdom. "She hath mingled her wine, she hath furnished her table," and cries--

"Come, eat ye of my bread, And drink of the wine which I have mingled."

That Jesus supped with his disciples, at the Passover time, is very probable, but that the bread and wine alone should have been selected for symbolical usage (a point unknown to the fourth gospel) conforms too closely with the Solomonic prologue to be a mere coincidence. The words "Take, eat," "Drink ye all of it," recall also the Song of Songs--

Eat, O friends! Drink, yea abundantly, O beloved!