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Acts 20:11

Acts 20:11

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

And when he was gone up for when he therefore was come up again, A.V.; the bread for bread, A.V. and T.R.; had talked with them for talked, A.V. Had broken the bread; i.e. the bread already prepared, and spoken of in (where see note), but which had not yet been broken in consequence of Paul's long discourse.

And eaten. γενσάμενος does not seem to mean "having eaten of the bread broken," for the word is never used of the sacramental eating of bread. That word is always φάγειν (1 Corinthians 11:20, 1 Corinthians 11:24) or ἐσθίειν (1 Corinthians 11:26, 1 Corinthians 11:27, 1 Corinthians 11:28, 1 Corinthians 11:29).

But γευσάμενος seems rather to be taken absolutely, as in , "having eaten," meant "having partaken" of the meal, the agape, which followed the Eucharist. Talked with them ( ὁμιλήσας). Of familiar converse (, ; ).

Compare the use of ὁμιλία in 1 Corinthians 15:33; from whence, of course, comes the word" homily."

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