Acts 15:20 (WEB)
but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
Fathers and councils · 4
Cyril of Jerusalem
“…write a Catholic epistle to all the Gentiles, that they should abstain first from things offered to idols, and then from blood also and from things strangled.” — editor's note: Acts xv. 20, 29. The prohibition of blood and things strangled has continued to the present day in the Eastern Church, though already disregarded by the Latins…
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Tertullian
“The reason why the Holy Spirit did, when the apostles at that time were consulting, relax the bond and yoke for us, was that we might be free to devote ourselves to the shunning of idolatry.” — editor's note: Acts xv. 1–31.
Read the whole comment“…consulted, determined, by the authority of the Holy Ghost, that “a yoke should not be put upon men’s necks which their fathers even had not been able to bear.”” — editor's note: See Gal. i. 11–24, compared with Acts xv. 5–29.
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John Cassian
“…a great thing by the Apostle if at least they were restrained from the worship of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood, and had embraced the faith of Christ, with their goods and all: or those who live up to the demands of the gospel, and carry the Lord’s cross daily, and want…” — editor's note: Acts xv. 20.
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Cross-references · 12
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Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.