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Vers. 42. And in breaking of Bread.

The Syriack expresly understandeth this of partaking of the Lords Supper, for he useth the very Greek word Eucharistia here. And so divers take that to be the meaning of this phrase, both here, and in some places else in the New Testamen•••• Yea, even they that suppose that it meaneth partaking of their common meals and food; yet do they think that they had the Sacrament added to it, as our Saviour added it to the Passover. And indeed the manner of speech doth signifie both the one and the other, both ordina∣ry meals, and the receiving of the Sacrament, as in Luke 24. 35. He was known of them* 1.1 in breaking of bread; here it meaneth a common Supper in the Inn at Emmaus: 1 Cor. 10. 16. The bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of Christ? Here it be∣tokeneth the receiving of the Sacrament. But it may be conceived to intend the Sacra∣ment the rather, and chiefly, if not only.

First, Because the phrase of breaking of bread for common eating, is very rare both in the Old Testament and Jewish Authors; but eating of bread is the expression that speak∣eth that.

And secondly, because breaking of the bread in the Sacrament, is a concomitant that cannot be parted from it, for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, he blessed and brake, and said, this is my body which is broken, 1 Cor. 11. 24.

Notes

• * 1.1

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Importeth the time here, and so the Sy∣riack reads it, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 As he was brea∣king bread.