Since the diners all lay on their left side, one beside the other, “the head of one man was near the breast of the man who lay behind him, ” explains one source,“ and he was, therefore, said ‘ to lie in the bosom ’ of the other. ”
सर्वजण टेबलाभोवती असे एकमेकांच्या जवळ बसल्यामुळं ते एकमेकांच्या “उराशी ” आहेत असं वाटायचं, असं एका बायबल विश्‍वकोशात सांगितलं आहे.