ACTS 15:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.”
Instead, we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood — the four prohibitions represent a minimal yoke for gentile believers: (1) food sacrificed to idols (eidōlothyta), (2) sexual immorality (porneia), (3) meat of strangled animals (pnikta), and (4) blood (haima). These restrictions reflect concern for conscience, health, and basic morality, not full Torah observance.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:20
Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God: but that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollution of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. For Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day. Acts 15:19-21 Since then they had heard of the Law, with good reason he enjoins these things from the Law, that he may not seem to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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