Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
LOVE-FEASTS were held in connection with the Lord's Supper, and paid for out of the common fund. Jude 12; 2 Pet 2:13. When the community of goods had ceased, Chrysostom says, the rich provided them. Originally these feasts were held in the churches, but this was forbidden by the Council of Laodicaea a.d. 320. and in the following century the custom was dropped or assumed other forms.