ACTS 15:33 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And after they had tarried there a space, they were let go in peace from the brethren unto the apostles.”
After spending some time there, Judas and Silas were sent off by the believers with the blessing of peace to those who had sent them — the reciprocal blessing ritual (eirēnē) affirms the representatives' successful mission and establishes ongoing good relations between Antioch and Jerusalem.
Church Fathers on Acts 15:33
So when they were dismissed they came to Antioch, and having gathered the multitude together, they delivered to them the epistle. Acts 15:30 After the epistle, then (Judas and Silas) also themselves exhort them by word Acts 15:31: for this also was needful, that (Paul and Barnabas) might be quit of all suspicion. Being prophets also themselves, it says, exhorted the brethren with many words. It shows here the right that Paul and Barnabas have to be believed. For Paul also…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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