“And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.”
There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were meeting — The lamp-lighting (lychnia, lampstand) suggests evening/night gathering in a private house-church. The atmosphere is intimate, cramped.
Church Fathers on Acts 20:8
And, it says, there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. And 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. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him, said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. When he therefore had come up again, and had broken bread, and…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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