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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Acts 27:35

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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when he had thus spoken he took bread--assuming the lead. and gave thanks to God in presence of them all--an impressive act in such circumstances, and fitted to plant a testimony for the God he served in the breasts of all. when he had broken it, he began to eat--not understood by the Christians in the ship as a love-feast, or celebration of the Lord's Supper, as some think, but a meal to recruit exhausted nature, which Paul shows them by his own example how a Christian partakes of.
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