For Moses of old time has in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Since then they had heard of the Law, with good reason he enjoins these things from the Law, that he may not seem to make it of no authority. And (yet) observe how he does not let them be told these things from the Law, but from himself, saying, It is not that I heard these things from the Law, but how? We have judged. Then the decree is made in common. Then pleased it the Apostles and elders, together with the whole Church, to choose men of their own company— do you observe they do not merely enact these matters, and nothing more?— and send them to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas: namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren: and they wrote letters by them after this manner.
