Acts 15:8 (WEB)
God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
Fathers and councils · 4
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“But however, through the grace of Jesus we believe that we shall be saved in the same way as they.”” — editor's note: See Acts xv. 7–11.
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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Ambrose of Milan
“For you read that he said: “God, Which knoweth the hearts of men, bare witness, giving them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us; and He made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.”” — editor's note: Acts xv. 8, 9.
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