“but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.”
— WEB
Acts 15:20
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“But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.”
— KJV
“but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.”
— ASV
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Commentary
But . . . that they abstain from pollutions of idols--that is, things polluted by having been offered in sacrifice to idols. The heathen were accustomed to give away or sell portions of such animals. From such food James would enjoin the Gentile converts to abstain, lest it should seem to the Jews that they were not entirely weaned from idolatry. and from fornication--The characteristic sin of heathendom, unblushingly practiced by all ranks and classes, and the indulgence of which on the part of the Gentile converts would to Jews, whose Scriptures branded it as an abomination of the heathen, proclaim them to be yet joined to their old idols. and from things strangled--which had the blood in them. and from blood--in every form, as peremptorily forbidden to the Jews, and the eating of which, therefore, on the part of the Gentile converts, would shock their prejudices. See on Act 15:28.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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