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  • From: "David Inglis" <david AT colonialcommerce.com>
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Jerusalem conference
  • Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 13:13:06 -0400


Bob MacDonald wrote:
>
> Bob: I don't see any connection between Galatians 2:11 and the Jerusalem
> council of Acts 15.
> If the council had sent the letter from the apostles (Acts 15:23-29), I
> think Paul would have appealed to it in Galatians. This is too long a topic
> for the current window.

This has for a long time seemed to me to be a very important point, one
that appears to get overlooked. Acts 15:23-29 gives us the text of "the
decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem
for the Gentile believers" (Acts 16:4) that were then delivered by Paul
and Silas to "every town where we proclaimed the word of the Lord" (Acts
15:36). Therefore, IMHO the best explanation for Paul not mentioning
these decrees in Galatians is simply that Galatians pre-dates the decrees!
Any more complicated explanation is, I believe, unnecessary.

Dave Inglis
david AT colonialcommerce.com
3538 O'Connor Drive
Lafayette, CA, USA




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