The Pulpit Commentary on Acts 2:42

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

Teaching for doctrine, A.V.; in the breaking for and in breaking, A.V. and T.R.; the prayers for in prayer, A.V. And fellowship; better, as in the margin, in fellowship; not meaning the apostles' fellowship, but the fellowship of the Church—that common life of close brotherhood in which all that they did was done in common, and all that they possessed was possessed in common, so that there seemed to be but one heart and one mind amongst them all.

Breaking of bread; in the Holy Eucharist. The prayers; the common prayers of the Church.

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