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that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell."
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Commentators stress that these four prohibitions were not requirements for salvation, but "necessary things" to ensure peace and fellowship between Jewish and Gentile believers. The Judaizers wrongly taught that observing the law was essential for salvation, but the council's letter clarified that these specific abstentions were practical steps to avoid offending Jewish believers and to maintain church unity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
From meats offered to idols. This explains what is meant by pollutions of idols (Acts 15:20).
You shall do …
Than these necessary things (πλην τουτων των επαναγκες). This old adverb (from επ and αναγκη) means on compulsion, of necessity. H…
19th Century
Anglican
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…
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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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 assured that it seemed good…
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