ACTS 21:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.”
But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote to them that they should abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication — the Jerusalem elders reassert the apostolic decree of Acts 15, relieving Gentile believers of circumcision and full Torah observance. The separation of Jewish and Gentile practice is established by apostolic authority.
Church Fathers on Acts 21:25
As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication. Acts 21:25 Here with a kind of remonstrance (ἐ ντρεπτικὥς), As we, say they, commanded them, although we are preachers to the Jews, so do thou, although a preacher to the Gentiles, cooperate with us. Observe Paul: he does not say, Well, but I can bring…
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