| Harold W. Attridge, Gōhei Hata - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 812 pages
...complete Pharisaism of the right wing, nor the complete antinomianism of the left: "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and... | |
| Alan F. Segal - Religion - 1990 - 388 pages
...of the others present their side of the issue. The council decides with Paul: “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and... | |
| Wilfrid J. Harrington - Religion - 1993 - 306 pages
...lay upon you any other burden" (v. 24) evokes an interesting parallel with Acts 15:28: "It has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden . . . than that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols . . . and from porneia." The parallel is, however,... | |
| Bibles - 1993 - 784 pages
...Judas and Silas, who themselves will also report the same things by word of mouth. 28 “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: 29 that you abstain from things sacpficed to idols and from blood and from things... | |
| J. Robertson McQuilkin - Religion - 1995 - 590 pages
...who thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men” (Rom. 14:18). “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things” (Acts 15:28). (See also Rom. 14:16) 13. Would I like to be doing this when... | |
| William Graham Scroggie - 1994 - 1460 pages
...have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who shall also tell you the same things by mouth. For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things... | |
| Witness Lee - 1996 - 124 pages
...presiding of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, later in the letter to the churches, they wrote, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things" (15:28). By this, we can see that there was no voting, and there was neither... | |
| Jonathan A. Draper - Religion - 1996 - 472 pages
...the letter which announced the decisions of the Apostolic Church it was written: “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things,” namely, the restrictions of the Apostolic Decree. And it was already recognized... | |
| Bill Hamon - Religion - 1997 - 340 pages
...therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: ... Now Judas and Silas, themselves being prophets also, exhorted and strengthened... | |
| Lawrence H. Schiffman - Greek literature - 1998 - 812 pages
...Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. 28 For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and... | |
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