Acts 11:3 (WEB)
saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”
Fathers and councils · 3
John Chrysostom
“…therefore they brought it as a charge against Peter, when he was come up to them from Cesarea, that he “went in to men uncircumcised, and did eat with them” ( Acts xi. 3 ); and after that they had learned the dispensation of God, even so still they wondered how “on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the…” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“…mouths of the Jews, and preparing the way for the teaching of the apostles, that people might not hereafter blame them for “entering in to men uncircumcised,”and think they had a just cause for shunning and abhorring them.” — editor's note: Acts xi. 3.
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Tertullian
“Besides, the Lord would not have been censured for partaking of food with Jews, but with heathens, from whose board the Jewish discipline excludes (its disciples).” — editor's note: See Acts x. 28; xi. 3.
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