Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Judas and Silas, being prophets themselves—that is, inspired teachers.
exhorted the brethren with many words—"much discourse."
and confirmed them—opening up, no doubt, the great principle involved in the controversy now settled, of gratuitous salvation, or the purification of the heart by faith alone (as expressed by Peter, Acts 15:9, Acts 15:11), and dwelling on the necessity of harmony in principle and affection between the Gentile disciples and their Jewish brethren.
they rejoiced for the consolation—As the same word is in Acts 15:31 properly rendered "exhorted," the meaning probably is "rejoiced for the exhortation" (Margin), or advice; so wise in itself and so contrary to the imposition attempted to be practiced upon them by the Judaizers.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 15:32:
Acts 15:22-23
Romans 12:6-8
Romans 12:8
Galatians 2:13
1 Thessalonians 1:1
1 Timothy 1:18
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