[213:1] Acts ii. 1.  That the day of Pentecost was the first day of the week appears from Lev. xxiii. 11, 15.  The same inference may be drawn from John xviii. 28, and xix. 31, compared with Lev. xxiii. 5, 6.  See also Schaff’s “History of the Apostolic Church,” i. p. 230, note, and the authorities there quoted.

[213:2] In the same way the Eucharist is called the Lord’s Supper:  [Greek:  Kuriakon deipnon] (1 Cor. xi. 20).  Thus also we speak of the Lord’s house, and the Lord’s people.

[213:3] Heb. x. 25.

[213:4] 1 Cor. xvi. 1, 2.

[213:5] Isa. lxv. 17, 18.

[213:6] [Greek:  Sabbatiamos].  See Owen “On the Hebrews,” iv. 9.

[213:7] Heb. iv. 9, 10.

[213:8] Rom. xiv. 5.

[214:1] Col. ii. 16, 17.

[214:2] The ordinary temple service could scarcely be called congregational.  It was almost exclusively ceremonial and typical, consisting of sacrificing, burning incense, and offering various oblations.  The worshippers generally prayed apart.  See Luke i. 10, xviii. 10, 11.

[215:1] See these eighteen prayers in Prideaux’s “Connexions,” i. 375, and note.  Bingham admits (Orig. iv. 194), that these are their "most ancient" forms of devotion; and, of course, if they were written after the fall of Jerusalem, it follows that the Jews had no liturgy in the days of our Lord.  Had they then been limited to fixed forms, He would scarcely have upbraided the Scribes and Pharisees for hypocritically "making long prayer" Matt, xxiii. 14.

[215:2] See Palmer’s “Origines Liturgicae,” i. pp. 44-92; and Clarkson’s “Discourse concerning Liturgies;” “Select Works,” p. 342.

[215:3] Matt. vi. 9-13.

[215:4] 1 Thess. v. 18.

[215:5] Eph. vi. 18.

[215:6] Eph. vi. 18.

[215:7] Acts i. 24, 25, iv. 24-30.

[216:1] See Lightfoot’s “Temple Service,” ch. vii. sec. 2; “Works,” ix. 56.

[216:2] Lightfoot’s “Prospect of the Temple,” ch. xxxiii.; “Works,” ix. 384.

[216:3] The multitudes who assembled at the great festivals in the temple could not well unite in one service.  The wall of the building was more than half a mile in circumference.  See Lightfoot, ix. 217.  There were various courts and divisions in the building.

[216:4] Heb. ix. 9-12, x. 1; John ii. 19-21; 1 Pet. ii. 5.

[216:5] Vitringa, “De Synagoga,” p. 203.

[216:6] Eph. v. 19.  According to some, the Psalms were divided into these three classes.

[216:7] Heb. xiii. 15.

[217:1] Bingham, ii. 482-484.

[217:2] Luke iv. 16, 17.

[217:3] Col. iv. 16; 1 Thess. v. 27.

[217:4] 1 Cor. xiv. 29.  It would appear from this that only two or three persons were permitted to speak at a meeting.  By him that “sitteth by” (verse 30), a doctor or teacher is meant.  See Vitringa, “De Synagoga,” p. 600, and Matt. v. 1.