the Christians’ distinctive meal and/or the specific actions and elements of it, borrowed into Latin as well as continued in Greek. The Acts of the Apostles suggests that a tradition of common meals known as “the breaking of the bread” was remembered as a central practice of the earliest Jerusalem community—and presumably was known in the author’s own community, in Asia Minor or Syria decades later (2:42; cf. Luke 24:35). In that case, a phrase that refers to one specific ritual action gives its