Acts 20:11 - Exposition

And when he was gone up for when he therefore was come up again, A.V.; the bread for bread, A.V. and T.R.; had talked with them for talked, A.V. Had broken the bread ; i.e. the bread already prepared, and spoken of in Acts 20:7 (where see note), but which had not yet been broken in consequence of Paul's long discourse. And eaten . γενσάμενος does not seem to mean "having eaten of the bread broken," for the word is never used of the sacramental eating of bread. That word is always φάγειν ( 1 Corinthians 11:20 , 1 Corinthians 11:24 ) or ἐσθίειν ( 1 Corinthians 11:26 , 1 Corinthians 11:27 , 1 Corinthians 11:28 , 1 Corinthians 11:29 ). But γευσάμενος seems rather to be taken absolutely, as in Acts 10:10 , "having eaten," meant "having partaken" of the meal, the agape, which followed the Eucharist. Talked with them ( ὁμιλήσας ). Of familiar converse ( Luke 24:14 , Luke 24:15 ; Acts 24:26 ). Compare the use of ὁμιλία in 1 Corinthians 15:33 ; from whence, of course, comes the word" homily."