this difference may not be so significant. This phrase “was a technical expression for the Jewish custom of pronouncing the blessing and breaking and distributing the bread at the beginning of a meal.”8 Others maintain that this phrase in Acts refers to the daily fellowship meals, which were separate from the continuation of the Last Supper (which, they claim, was first observed only annually at Passover time). These meals are said to have developed into the Agape (or love feast) and only later were
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