Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
They delivered them the decrees for to keep - , ̔ Ϛ . Bishop Pearce contends that , the decrees, is a gloss which was not in the text originally; and that the , the judgments or determinations of the apostles, was all that was originally written here. He supports his opinion by a reference to the word , I judge, used by James, Acts 15:19, whence the whole decision, as it referred -
1.to the inexpediency of circumcising the Gentiles; and,
2.to the necessity of observing the four precepts laid down, was called , the things that were judged, or decided on; the judgments of the apostolic council.
Instead of , the Syrian has a word that answers to , the decrees that were written. The word , from , to think proper, determine, decree, signifies an ordinance or decree, properly and deliberately made, relative to any important point, and which, in reference to that point, has the force of law. Our term dogma, which we often abuse, is the Greek word in English letters.
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