Acts 16:4 (WEB)
As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and elders who were at Jerusalem.
Fathers and councils · 3
John Chrysostom
“At least when Paul and they that were of his company were come up to Jerusalem about decrees,they went in straightway unto James.” — editor's note: Acts xv. 4, xvi. 4, xxi. 18.
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Tertullian
“Of the latest Testament the condition is ever immutable; and, of course the public recitation of that decree, and the counsel embodied therein, will cease (only) with the world.” — editor's note: See Acts xv. 30 and xvi. 4.
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Basil the Great
“Of the beliefs and practices whether generally accepted or publicly enjoined which are preserved in the Church some we possess derived from written teaching; others we have received delivered to us “in a mystery” by the tradition of the apostles; and both of these in relation to true religion have the same force.” — editor's note: “τῶς ἐν τῇ Εκκλησί& 139· πεφυλαγμένων δογμάτων καὶ κηρυγμάτων.” To give the apparent meaning of the original seems impossible except by some such paraphrase as…
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Cross-references · 3
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 12.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 12.
Cited together in On Modesty Chapter 12.