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CROSS REFERENCES Ac 5:42And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ. Lk 24:53And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen. Ac 2:42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Ac 20:7And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. Ac 1:14These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

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Acts 2:46–47 KJV 1900

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, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Acts 2:46–47 (Word Studies in the New Testament): With one accord (ὁμοθυμαδὸν). See on Matt. 18:19.

From house to house (κατʼ οἶκον). Better, as Rev., at home, contrasted with in the temple. Compare Philem. 2; Col. 4:15; 1 Cor. 16:19.

Did eat their meat (μετελάμβανον τροφῆς). Rev., take their food. Partake would be better, giving the force of μετά, with. Note the imperfect: “continued to partake.”

Singleness (ἀφελότητι). Only here in New Testament. Derived from ἀ, not, and φελλεύς, stony ground. Hence of something simple or plain.

47. Added (προσετίθει). Imperfect: kept adding.

Such as should be saved (τοὺς σωζομένους). Lit., as Rev., those that were being saved. The rendering of the A. V. would require the verb to be in the future, whereas it is the present participle. Compare 1 Cor. 1:18. Salvation is a thing of the present, as well as of the past and future. The verb is used in all these senses in the New Testament. Thus, we were saved (not are, as A. V.), Rom. 8:24; shall or shalt be saved, Rom. 10:9, 13; ye are being saved, 1 Cor. 15:2. “Godliness, righteousness, is life, is salvation. And it is hardly necessary to say that the divorce of morality and religion must be fostered and encouraged by failing to note this, and so laying the whole stress either on the past or on the future—on the first call, or on the final change. It is, therefore, important that the idea of salvation as a rescue from sin, through the knowledge of God in Christ, and therefore a progressive condition, a present state, should not be obscured, and we can but regret such a translation as Acts 2:47, ‘The Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved,’ where the Greek implies a different idea” (Lightfoot, “On a Fresh Revision of the New Testament”).

To the church. See on Matt. 16:18.