Acts 15:29 (WEB)
that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”
Fathers and councils · 11
Origen
- Origen, Against Celsus VIII.29Book VIII
“…is some obscurity about this matter, without some explanation is given, it seemed good to the apostles of Jesus and the elders assembled together at Antioch, and also, as they themselves say, to the Holy Spirit, to write a letter to the Gentile believers, forbidding them to partake of those things from which alone…” — editor's note: Acts xv. 28, 29. It was at Jerusalem.
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Jerome
“Then, again, the Apostles and elders wrote letters from Jerusalem that no heavier burden should be laid on Gentile believers than that they should keep themselves from idolatry, and from fornication, and from things strangled.” — editor's note: Acts xv. 28, 29.
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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…
Read the whole comment“…greater burden than these necessary things; that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; shewing evidently by what they wrote, that though the writing was by the hands of human Apostles, yet the decree is universal from the Holy Ghost: which…” — editor's note: Acts xv. 28, 29. ἐπιστολή means a message or injunction whether verbal or written.
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John Cassian
- John Cassian, Conferences XVIII–XXIV XVIII.5Conference XVIII
“…habits, required nothing more than that they should “abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood,” and so that liberty which was conceded to the Gentiles because of the weakness of their newly-born faith, had by degrees begun to mar the perfection of that…” — editor's note: Acts xv. 29.
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Augustine of Hippo
“The hay will burn; but “the word of the Lord abideth for evermore.”…” — editor's note: Isa. xl. 8. [On this subject see p. 99, note 2, supra. But it is well to study this and other Fathers passim on this most perplexing matter. Comp. Acts xv. 28,…
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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“…no ampler weight than (that) of those (things) from which it is necessary that abstinence be observed; from sacrifices, and from fornications, and from blood: by abstaining from which ye act rightly, the Holy Spirit carrying you.”” — editor's note: See Acts xv. 28, 29.
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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Clement of Alexandria
“…abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication, from which, if you keep yourselves, ye shall do well.”” — editor's note: Acts xv. 23, 28, 29.
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Cyprian of Carthage
“And whatsoever you would not to be done unto you, do not to others.”” — editor's note: Acts xv. 28, 29.
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Cross-references · 14
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 12.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.29.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.120.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.120.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.120.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.120.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.120.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.120.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.29.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.29.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.29.
Cited together in Against Celsus VIII.29.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XVIII.5.
Cited together in Conferences XVIII–XXIV XVIII.5.