Chapter XIV.—Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day
Chapter XIV. 2490 —Christian Assembly on the Lord’s Day.
1. But every Lord’s day 2491 do ye gather yourselves together, and break bread, and give thanksgiving after having confessed your transgressions, 2492 that your sacrifice may be pure. 2493 2. But let no one that is at variance 2494 with his fellow come together with you, until they be reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be profaned. 3. For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: In every place and time offer to me a pure sacrifice; 2495 for I am a great King, saith the Lord, and my name is wonderful among the nations. 2496
Footnotes
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Comp. Rev. i. 10. Here the full form is κατὰ κυριακὴν δὲ Κυρίον. If the early date is allowed, this verse confirms the view that from the first the Lord’s Day was observed, and that, too, by a eucharistic celebration.
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On this spiritual sense of “sacrifice,” comp. Rom. xii. 1; Phil. ii. 17; Heb. xiii. 15; 1 Pet. ii. 5.
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“That hath the (or, any) dispute” (ἀμφιβολίαν); comp. Matt. 5:23, 24.
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[See Mal. i. 11. See Irenæus, cap. xvii. 5, vol. i. p. 484.]
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