ACTS 15:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth.”
Therefore we are sending Judas and Silas to confirm by word of mouth what we are writing — the oral confirmation (symmartureo) by the representatives ensures face-to-face explanation and relationship-building, not merely a cold letter.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:27
We have sent, it says, Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by word of mouth. Acts 15:27 For it was necessary that there should be not merely the Epistle there by itself, lest they should say that Paul and Barnabas had suppressed (the real purport), that they said one thing instead of another. The encomium passed upon Paul stopped their mouths. For this is the reason why neither Paul comes alone nor Barnabas (with him), but others also from the Church;…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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