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109. As Oft As Ye Eat

From: Answers to Correspondents: From Things New and Old 1863-1866

By: Charles Henry Mackintosh

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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“T. X.” It does not appear that the Lord has given us any direction as to the hour of the day at which we shall break bread. The inspired history informs us that the Supper was first instituted in the evening. (See Matt. 26:20²⁰Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve. (Matthew 26:20).) We may also, perhaps, infer, from the circumstances detailed in Acts 20:7-11,⁷And 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. ⁸And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. ⁹And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. ¹⁰And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. ¹¹When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. (Acts 20:7‑11) that the meeting took place in the evening. But to us it seems quite indifferent quite an open question; and if any undertake to lay down rules, they are overstepping the bounds of Scripture. The word is, “As oft as ye eat.”

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• 96. Nature's Strength

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• 98. Things Which Differ

• 99. Fellowship in Almsgiving

• 100. God Our Strength

• 101. Evil Thoughts

• 102. Christ or Feelings

• 103. Working and Preaching

• 104. The Lord's Day

• 105. Christians in Debt

• 106. Lawful Business

• 107. The Divisions in The Revelation

• 108. The First and Second Man

• 109. As Oft As Ye Eat

• 111. Photography

• 112. Self-Judgment

• 113. Backbiting

• 114. Ministerial Training

• 115. 1 John 4:17

• 116. Rev. 5:10

• 117. 1 Corinthians 11:23

• 118. Upright Dealing

• 119. Added to the Church of God

• 120. Eternal Punishment.

• 121. Do All to the Glory of God

• 122. Rev. 11:2