 | Arthur Judson Brown - Church growth - 1915 - 318 pages
...the Gentiles turn to God"; and the Council sensibly wrote to their brethren in Antioch: "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things." l All of which is very wholesome reading in like circumstances to-day. The... | |
 | William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin - Church - 1916 - 400 pages
...Church. The question was taken before an apostolic council, and the decree given was that "it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things." (Acts xv, Gal. ii.) It would seem reasonable to hope and to ask that the term... | |
 | Levi Rightmyer - 1916 - 990 pages
...have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed words will be proclaimed in that day), that these necessary things: that ye abstain first, from meats offered to idols; second, and from blood;... | |
 | Charles Rosenbury Erdman - Bible - 1919 - 186 pages
...Judas and Silas, who themselves also shall tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden,than these necessary things: 29 that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood,... | |
 | Frederick John Foakes-Jackson - 1926 - 302 pages
...to others." ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES In the letter the decision is given thus: "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no further burthen than these necessary ones—to keep yourselves from the pollutions of idols, and things... | |
 | Anglo-Catholicism - 1922 - 530 pages
...they are forgiven unto them ; whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained. Acts xv. 28 : It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things. 1 Cor. v. 3-5: I verily, being absent in body but present in spirit, have already... | |
 | Marcus Minucius Felix - Apologetics - 1989 - 172 pages
...banquets modest, they are also *At the council in Jerusalem, the apostles wrote the church, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled... | |
 | Johanna Manley - Religion - 1990 - 1144 pages
...therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it seemed these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled,... | |
 | John F. O'Grady - Religion - 1992 - 196 pages
...Barnabas and Silas, leading men among the brethren, with the following letter. “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and... | |
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