On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day; and continued his speech until midnight.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. On the first day of the week. [1] The interpreters generally take notice with Saint John Chrysostom that the Christians, even at this time, must have changed the sabbath into the first day of the week, as all Christians now keep it. Which change (even as to the manner of keeping one of God’s ten commandments) was made by the Church.—To break bread, meaning the blessed sacrament, as it is commonly expounded. Witham.—Saint Paul did here break bread on a Sunday, as it is broken in the sacrament of the body of Christ, and delivered a discourse to the people, both before and after the celebration of the divine mysteries. Saint Augustine ep. lxxxvi ad Casulanum. Ven. Bede in xx. Act.