Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 15:24
Forasmuch as, &c. — The simplicity, weightiness, and conciseness of this letter are highly observable.
Forasmuch as, &c. — The simplicity, weightiness, and conciseness of this letter are highly observable.
ACTS 15:24 @evxelqo,ntej# {C} Despite the possibility that evxelqo,ntej was added, either under the influence of Galatians 2:12 or “to guard against the appearances that...
Verse Acts 15:24. _CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FROM US_] So the persons who produced these doubtful disputations at Antioch, c., had gone out from the apostles at Jerusalem, and were of that Church: person...
FORASMUCH - Since we have heard. THAT CERTAIN - That some, Acts 15:1. HAVE TROUBLED YOU WITH WORDS - With doctrines. They have disturbed your minds, and produced contentions. SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS -...
CHAPTER 15 _ 1. The false teachers from Judea. Paul and Barnabas sent to Jerusalem (Acts 15:1)._ 2. The Council in Jerusalem (Acts 15:6). 3. The Result made known (Acts 15:22). 4. The Consolation b...
THE LETTER IS SENT. The apostles and elders have never in this chapter acted alone (see Acts 15:6); the action is that of the whole Church. Silas does not stand for Silvanus, but is a Semitic name, th...
THE CRUCIAL PROBLEM (Acts 15:1-5) The influx of Gentiles into the Church produced a problem which had to be solved. The mental background of the Jew was founded on the fact that he belonged to the ch...
Then the apostles and the elders together with the whole Church took a decision to choose men from their number and to send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas. They chose Judas who is called Barsa...
HAVE. Omit. SUBVERTING. unsettling. Greek. _anaskeuazo._ Only here, and not in Septuagint YOUR SOULS. you (emph.) Greek. _psuche._ App-110. SAYING... LAW. The texts omit. GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMENT....
_which went out_ These words are not represented in the Greek of some MSS., but they seem to give force to the history. The disturbing teachers had come from Jerusalem, but their want of any authority...
λέγοντες περιτέμνεσθαι καὶ τηρεῖν τὸν νόμον omitted with אABD. Not represented in _Vulg_. 24. ἘΞΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ, _which went out_. Some ancient MSS. omit this word, but it seems to have a distinct and necess...
ANSWER AND DEPUTATION SENT FROM JERUSALEM. THE LETTER OF THE SYNOD TO THE CHRISTIANS OF ANTIOCH...
_A LETTER TO THE GENTILES ACTS 15:22-35:_ The brethren were in agreement concerning the letter. The letter was written and sent to Antioch by the hands of Paul and Barnabas along with Silas and Judas....
ΈΠΕΙΔΉ (G1894) так как, ввиду того, что. ΉΚΟΎΣΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 15:7. ΈΞΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΈΞΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1831) выходить, ΈΤΆΡΑΞΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΤΑΡΆΣΣΩ (G5015) бес...
SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS,— _Unsettling your minds,_ The word ανασκευαζοντες is primarily and properly applied to the _removing a vessel from one place to another._ In a secondary sense, it implies the mo...
THE ELDERS AND APOSTLES MEET TO SETTLE THE DISPUTE. Acts 15:6-29 a. Peter's speech. Acts 15:6-11. Acts 15:6 And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter....
See notes on verse 22...
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandm...
18 James does not refer to the report of Barnabas and Paul, when he quotes Amo_9:11-12, but to Peter's address. The prophet, speaking of the time when the kingdom will be set up, refers to those among...
THE QUESTION OF CIRCUMCISION 1-35. The Council of Jerusalem, 49 a.d. The usual view is that Galatians 2:1 describes the visit of St. Paul to Jerusalem on the occasion of this Council. Adopting this, t...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 15 AN IMPORTANT MEETING IN *JERUSALEM, 15:1-21 V1 Some men came from *Judea to Antioch. They were teaching the *believers like this. ‘You must...
CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FROM US. — The reference is obviously to the teachers (their names are wisely and charitably suppressed) who had appeared at Antioch, as in Acts 15:1. St. John, who was present...
On the similarity of this verse in phraseology to St. Luke's preface, Luke 1:1, Schwegler, Zeller, Weiss, Friedrich, Hilgenfeld, and others have commented. But, after all, in what does the likeness co...
“CONFIRMING THE CHURCHES” Acts 15:22-41 This letter was a noble document and fitted for its immediate purpose, but it does not apply directly to us, as the circumstances which called it forth have lo...
In the work among Gentiles the question of circumcision very naturally arose, and its difficulty is revealed in the calling of a council. That council seems to have opened with much desultory discussi...
A Letter for the Gentiles The group decided to send Paul and Barnabas back to the Gentiles along with some men closely associated with the apostles and elders in Jerusalem. Judas Barsabas and Silas we...
(10) Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which (k) went out from us have troubled you with words, (l) subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no...
_Some who went out from us, from Jerusalem, and pretended to speak our mind, and in our name, but we gave them no such commission. (Witham) --- A proper description of heretics, schismatics, and sedit...
The decrees proposed by James, their presiding bishop, receive a unanimous vote of the apostles, elders and brethren. In view of securing for the decrees all possible endorsement and availability, the...
Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among t...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 24._Certain which went out from us. _We see that there was no respect of persons among these holy men, which doth always corrupt sound and right judgments. They confess that there were knaves of the...
Chapter 15 contains the account of this. Certain persons come from Jerusalem, where all was still going on in connection with the requirements of the law; and they seek to impose these requirements on...
FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE HEARD,.... By the report of Paul and Barnabas, who were sent by the church at Antioch to Jerusalem, to acquaint them with the state of their case: THAT CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FRO...
Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, _Ye must_ be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no _such_ comma...
_Forasmuch as we have heard_, &c. The simplicity, weightiness, and conciseness of this letter, are highly observable; _that certain which went out from us_ That is, pretending to be sent out by us; _h...
TROUBLED YOU WITH WORDS, SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS; compare the manner in which Paul speaks of these men in Galatians 2:4. They had subverted their souls by inculcating error, and turning them from the tr...
FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE HEARD THAT CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FROM US HAVE TROUBLED YOU WITH WORDS, SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS, SAYING, YE MUST BE CIRCUMCISED, AND KEEP THE LAW, TO WHOM WE GAVE NO SUCH COMMANDMEN...
The resolutions of the assembly:...
However, here at Antioch a matter arose of deeply serious significance, and it was clearly God's wisdom to have Paul and Barnabas there at the time. Men from Judea, professing the knowledge of Christ,...
THEY WROTE THIS, _LETTER_ BY THEM: THE APOSTLES, THE ELDERS, AND THE BRETHREN, TO THE BRETHREN WHO ARE OF THE GENTILES IN ANTIOCH, SYRIA, AND CILICIA: GREETINGS. 24 Since we have heard that some who...
The Judaizing teachers had lied. The apostles did not endorse their teaching and neither did the congregation in Jerusalem. Evidently such false brethren had been making some false claims of being aut...
22-35 Being warranted to declare themselves directed by the immediate influence of the Holy Ghost, the apostles and disciples were assured that it seemed good unto God the Holy Spirit, as well as to...
CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FROM US; for these false apostles were such as came from Judea, ACTS 15:1, that is, from the church there. It is Satan's great policy to divide, that he may rule; he will have a...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book IV For the apostle says, "All other things buy out of the shambles, asking no questions," with the exception of the things mentioned in the Catholic epistle of all...
Acts 15:24 Since G1894 heard G191 (G5656) that G3754 some G5100 out G1831 (G5631) from G1537 us...
THE VIEW OF THE APOSTLES AND THE JERUSALEM CHURCH IS RELAYED TO SYRIAN ANTIOCH (15:22-35)....
‘Forasmuch as we have heard that certain who went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, to whom we gave no commandment, it seemed good to us, having come to one accord, to c...
Acts 15:24. FORASMUCH AS WE HAVE HEARD, THAT CERTAIN WHICH WENT OUT FROM US HAVE TROUBLED YOU WITH WORDS, SUBVERTING YOUR SOULS. These zealots for the old law and the Jewish rites came evidently from...
CERTAIN WHICH WENT FROM US (τινες εξ ÂημÂων, Aleph B omit εξελθοντες). A direct blow at the Judaizers, put in delicate language (we heard Âηκουσαμεν) as if only at Antioch (Acts 15:1), and not also...
CONTENTS: The council at Jerusalem and the question of circumcision. Paul's second missionary journey. Silas chosen. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Moses, Paul, Barnabas, apostles, elders, Phar...
Acts 15:1. _Certain men which came down from Judea._ Epiphanius says, Cerinthus the heretic was one of the principals in this dissension. But they were, no doubt, of the devil's sending, to disquiet t...
TOGETHER WITH THE WHOLE CHURCH. The entire group of Christians were in agreement about this. THEY CHOSE JUDAS. He was a prophet (Acts 15:32). SILAS, He became Paul's associate (Acts 15:40). THEY SENT...
_And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised … ye cannot be saved._ DISTURBERS OF THE CHURCH I. Certain men came down from Judea. 1. Probably...
_And after they had held their peace, James answered._ THE DECISION OF THE COUNCIL This was a crisis in the history of the Church. The greatest disasters might have befallen it at this critical time....
_And they wrote letters._ THE APOSTOLIC LETTER 1. A model of brotherly love and Divine wisdom. 2. A pattern for the modern Church. 3. A great standing deliverance from all ceremonial and ritualist...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 15:24 UNSETTLING YOUR MINDS. Those insisting that Gentile converts should be circumcised neither represented the Jerusalem leadership nor had their approval (see vv. Act
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 15:1 The Jerusalem Council. A conference was held in Jerusalem (c. A.D. 48 or 49) to discuss conditions for Gentile membership in the church. The “Pharisaic” group in the Jerusalem c...
_HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS_.—_Acts 15:22_ The Letter from the Church at Jerusalem; or, the Publication of the Settlement I. THE RESOLUTION OF THE CHURCH.— 1. _To prepare an encyclical letter_, to be sent...
EXPOSITION ACTS 15:1 _Came down … and taught _for _which came down_ …_ taught, _A.V.; _saying _for _and said, _A.V._; custom _(ἔθος) for _manner, _A.V. EXCEPT YE BE CIRCUMCISED, etc. The question t...
And certain men which came down from Judea [to the church in Antioch] taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved (Acts 15:1). Unfortunately,...
1 John 2:19; 2 Timothy 2:14; Acts 15:1; Acts 15:10; Acts 15:9;...
Subverting [α ν α σ κ ε υ α ζ ο ν τ ε ς]. Only here in New Testament, and not found either in the Septuagint or in the Apocrypha. Originally, it means to pack up baggage, and so to carry away; hence,...