Breaking Bread from House to House
'Breaking bread from house to house.'—This may signify that select companies who were contiguous to each other frequently ate together at their respective lodgings, on their return from public worship. But kat' oikon, which we translate from house to house, is repeatedly used by the Greek writers for home, or at home (see margin); for although they had all things in common, each person lived at his own table. Breaking bread is used to express the act of taking their meals. The bread of the Jews was thin, hard, and dry, and was never cut with the knife, as ours is, but was simply broken by the hand.'—Clarke. 'And they continued daily in the temple with one soul; and at home, they broke bread and took food rejoicing, and in the simplicity of their heart.'—Syriac Version.