ACTS 15:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;”
It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us not to burden you with anything beyond the following requirements — the conjunction of Holy Spirit and apostolic/elder consensus (edoxen to pneumati to hagio kai hemin) affirms that the council's decision reflects divine will, not human preference. The phrase not to burden you (mē epitithēmi humas baros) returns to James's language, emphasizing that gentile Christian freedom remains intact.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:28
to the Holy Ghost and to us Acts 15:28: not making themselves equal (to Him )— they are not so mad. But why does it put this (so)? Why did they add, And to us, and yet it had sufficed to say, To the Holy Ghost? The one, To the Holy Ghost, that they may not deem it to be of man; the other, To us, that they may be taught that they also themselves admit (the Gentiles), although themselves being in circumcision. They have to speak to men who are still weak and afraid of them:…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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