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me THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES<br />

(2) <strong>The</strong> combination <strong>of</strong> prohibition <strong>of</strong> meats and<br />

fornication—why this selection ?—is a detail that no<br />

one has yet been able to explain satisfactorily.^ On<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r hand, <strong>the</strong> combination <strong>of</strong> Idolatry, Murder,<br />

and Fornification is quite intelligible, and can be<br />

instanced from <strong>the</strong> ethical catechisms <strong>of</strong> contemporary<br />

Judaism.<br />

(3) If <strong>the</strong> commandments <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Decree prohibited<br />

meats <strong>the</strong>y undoubtedly formed part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish<br />

Law ; but we read just beforehand (xv. 19 f.) that<br />

nothing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish Law was to be imposed upon<br />

<strong>the</strong> Gentile Christians, seeing that this Law still<br />

continued in force and in practice among <strong>the</strong> Jews;<br />

accordingly (if <strong>the</strong> commands <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Decree are inter-<br />

preted as forbidding certain meats) a discrepancy, not<br />

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