And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
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Gill's Exposition
Praising God,.... Not only for their temporal mercies and enjoyments of life, which they partook of in so delightful and comfortable a manner; but for their spiritual mercies, that the Lord had been…
Barnes' Notes
With one accord - Compare Act 1:14; Act 2:1. In the temple - This was the public place of worship; and the disciples were not disposed to leave the place where their fathers had so long worshipped…
Adam Clarke
They, continuing daily with one accord in the temple - They were present at all the times of public worship, and joined together in prayers and praises to God; for it in not to be supposed that they…
We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it, its state of infancy…
Cambridge Bible
And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple The Greek is more emphatic. Render, And day by day attending continually with one accord, &c.
At the Temple they were likely to meet with the…
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