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Postulasagan 15:19
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
that: Acts 15:10, Acts 15:24, Acts 15:28, Galatians 1:7-10, Galatians 2:4, Galatians 5:11, Galatians 5:12
turned: Acts 26:20, Isaiah 55:7, Hosea 14:2, 1 Thessalonians 1:9
Reciprocal: Luke 1:3 - seemed Acts 9:35 - turned Acts 11:21 - turned 1 Corinthians 7:18 - being 1 Corinthians 8:1 - touching Galatians 2:14 - why
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Wherefore my sentence is,.... Opinion or judgment in this case, or what he reckoned most advisable to be done; for he did not impose his sense upon the whole body, but proposed it to them:
that we trouble not them; by obliging them to be circumcised, which would have been very afflicting and disturbing to them; not only because of the corporeal pain produced by circumcision, but because of the bondage their minds would be brought into, and they become subject to the whole law, and all its burdensome rites and ceremonies:
which from among the Gentiles are turned to God; the one true and living God, Father, Son, and Spirit, and from idols, and the worshipping of them.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My sentence - Greek: I judge κρίνω krinō that is, I give my opinion. It is the usual language in which a judge delivers his opinion; but it does not imply here that James assumed authority to settle the case, but merely that he gave his opinion, or counsel.
That we trouble not them - That we do not molest, disturb, or oppress them by imposing on them unnecessary fires and ceremonies.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 15:19. Wherefore my sentence is — Διο εγω κρινω, Wherefore I judge. There is an authority here that does not appear in the speech of St. Peter; and this authority was felt and bowed to by all the council; and the decree proposed by St. James adopted.