| Daniel Liderbach - Music - 1998 - 184 pages
...belief. Nonetheless Luke presents that council as having formulated this decision: “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). Evidently those first disciples were confident that the Holy... | |
| Lawrence H. Schiffman - Religion - 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... | |
| Religion - 2005 - 238 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... | |
| Stephen K. Ray - Religion - 1999 - 336 pages
...agree.' . . . [Peter, the apostles, and the elders wrote to the Gentiles, saying], 'For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things.' " 72 context in which it is placed, but the use of the imperative does not... | |
| Mal Couch - Religion - 1999 - 340 pages
...elders. This first Jerusalem Council ruled through a letter sent back to Antioch that “it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden then these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things... | |
| Thomas Hobbes - United Kingdom, Great Britain - 1996 - 628 pages
...contrary to that which Cardinal Bellarmine alledgeth it for. The fift place is Acts 15.28. It hath seem ed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden, than these necessary things, that yee abstaine from meats offered to Idols, and from bloud, and from things... | |
| Tia M. Kolbaba - Church history - 2000 - 256 pages
...of missionary work, the following decision regarding meat-eating was rendered: “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... | |
| Paul R. House, Greg Thornbury - Religion - 2000 - 244 pages
...letter sent to the Gentiles in Antioch, however, the apostles and elders instructed them: For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled... | |
| Witness Lee - Bible - 1985 - 225 pages
...gathering for fellowship, with the Holy Spirit as the One presiding. Therefore, verse 28 says, "It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things." There was no voting, and there was neither autocracy nor democracy, neither... | |
| Universidad de Navarra. Facultad de Teología - Religion - 2000 - 936 pages
...Judas and Silas, who themselves will tell you the same things by word of mouth. :8 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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