ACTS 15:14 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Simeon hath declared how God at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.”
Simon has described to us how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for his own name — James refers to Peter as Simon, using his Hebrew name, and summarizes Peter's argument: God's initiative (episkeptomai, to visit, care for) established a gentile people for God's name. The phrase for his own name (tō onomati autou) emphasizes God's glory and reputation as the motive.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:14
This (James) was bishop, as they say, and therefore he speaks last, and herein is fulfilled that saying, In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established. Deuteronomy 17:6; Matthew 18:16 But observe the discretion shown by him also, in making his argument good from the prophets, both new and old. For he had no acts of his own to declare, as Peter had and Paul. And indeed it is wisely ordered that this (the active) part is assigned to those, as not…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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