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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 11:3

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Acts 11:3 (WEB)

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men and ate with them!”

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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

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  • “…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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