ACTS 15:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.”
For the law of Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath — James's final justification: Jews already know the law through weekly synagogue instruction, so gentiles need not be burdened with full compliance. The reading of Moses in synagogues presupposes ongoing Jewish education, distinguishing the church's trajectory from Jewish observance.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:21
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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