...Gentiles CHAP. who turn to God ; but charge them by letter, to abstain from the pol- 20 luted offerings to idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood, for the Jewish Christians must be averse to such as practise these thmgs; because Moses Ins of oldhis preach-...

...hearing the law rehearsed and explained, and for the exercise, it is probable, of public devotion. " For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach bim, .being read in the synagogues every sabbath day" The seventh day is Saturday ; and agreeable to...

...all these things. 18 Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. 19 Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God : 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, aud from fornication,...

...things, the minutest events as well as the most important. 19. Wherefore my sentence is, " my opinion is," that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God; 20. But that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and...

...they only, but even the holiest of our fathers, were utterly unable to undergo and fulfil? XV. 20 nut that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions...fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood. Only, that we write unto them, that they abstain from those things, which are tlic most common and...

...tlie atonement of Christ for salvation. Only he recommended, that the council should direct them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.* For the number of Jews dispersed through Gentile cities, and who Though an idol was nothing, and what was...

...the " world. Wherefore my fentence is, that we trouble « not them, which FROM AMONG THE GEN«* TILES are turned to God: but that we write " unto them, that they abftain from pollutions of " idols, and from fornkation, and from things " ftrangled, and from blood....

...closed the debate, and proposed the resolution in which the council ultimately concurred : " Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them which from among the Gentiles are turned to God." Upon the whole, that there exists a conformity in the expressions used concerning James, throughout...

...text of scripture would read with propriety, and in harmony with others, without the bold ellipsis. " But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and fornication, and things strangled, and blood. — For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us —...

...synagogue every sabbath day. Did Moses any where in his law, enjoin all the Gentiles to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood ? Moses delivered no precept whatever to the Gentiles, Rom. iii. 19. Wherefore, that Moses was preached...