ACTS 15:29 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.”
You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell — the reiteration of the four prohibitions with the formula you will do well to avoid these things (kalōs poiēseite diatassomenoi) is phrased as practical wisdom rather than commandment, appealing to the conscience rather than imposing law.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:29
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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