Acts 15:29

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That you abstain from anything offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Farewell.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

From blood, and from things strangled. The use of these things, though of their own nature indifferent, were here prohibited, to bring the Jews more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to exercise the latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but temporary, and has long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the western churches. (Challoner) See note on ver. 20, above.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

For these things the New Testament did not enjoin: we nowhere find that Christ discoursed about these matters; but these things they take from the Law. From things strangled, it says, and from blood. Here it prohibits murder. cf. Genesis 9:5 So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation.

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Richard Challoner

AD 1781

From blood, and from things strangled: The use of these things, though of their own nature indifferent, was here prohibited, to bring the Jews more easily to admit of the society of the Gentiles; and to exercise the latter in obedience. But this prohibition was but temporary, and has long since ceased to oblige; more especially in the western churches.

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