religious(devout) proselytes Perhaps applied to the proselytes of righteousness as distinguished from the proselytes of the gate.

persuaded them to continue in the grace of God as Barnabas in like circumstances had urged on the converts at Antioch in Syria (Acts 11:23). Here, though we have no mention of actual converts, the Apostles must have had regard to the "purpose of their hearts" when they spake to these enquirers as though they were already "in the grace of God."

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