Being assembled together with them, he commanded them, “Don’t depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which you heard from me.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 4. And eating with them. [1] This is a literal translation from the vulgar Latin. But the Prot. translation from some Greek copies, would have it, And being assembled together, he commanded them, and so forth Mr. Bois defends the Latin Vulg. and even by the authority of Saint John Chrysostom who doubtless understood the Greek text, as well as any one, and who takes the Greek word here to signify eating: for he observes that the apostles elsewhere prove Christ’s resurrection by his eating and drinking with them. Acts 10:4. Saint Jerome also says, the derivation of the Greek word, is from eating salt together. Witham.