Than these necessary things (πλην τουτων των επαναγκες). This old adverb (from επ and αναγκη) means on compulsion, of necessity. H…

From meats offered to idols. This explains what is meant by pollutions of idols (Acts 15:20).

You shall do …

From meats offered to idols.—The specific term takes the place of the more general word that Saint James had used. If the two word…

With Judas, Silas, Paul, and Barnabas, who were going to Antioch, the Jerusalem church sent a letter, recorded here in Ac 15. The placing of “broth…

That you abstain from meats offered to idols
Which explains what is meant by pollutions of idols, ([Reference Acts 1…

Authorized to declare they were directed by the immediate influence of the Holy Spirit, the apostles and disciples were a ured that it seemed good …