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Pentecost, El Greco

Acts 15:14

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Acts 15:14 (WEB)

Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “Wherefore I for my part give judgment, that we trouble not them who from among the Gentiles are turned to God: but that it be enjoined them, that they do abstain from the vanities of idols, and from fornication, and from blood; and whatsoever they wish not to be done to themselves, let them not do to others.”” — editor's note: Acts xv. 14, etc.

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  • “…the earth should fornicate from the Lord,” that is, the men who are upon the earth; and from men of this stamp it will be God’s good pleasure to take out a Church which shall be sanctified by fellowship with His Son, just as that woman was sanctified by intercourse with the prophet.” — editor's note: Acts xv. 14.

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