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The Acts of the Apostles

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THE APOSTOLIC DECREE 26S<br />

<strong>of</strong> course tremendous : strict Jewish Christians now<br />

recognised that Gentiles by birth could be Christians<br />

without circumcision and <strong>the</strong> observance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Law.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Antiochean source is accordingly free from<br />

objection also in this point, and St. Luke in follow-<br />

ing this source has trusted to a good authority, nor<br />

has he told us anything that he could not have told<br />

us as a companion <strong>of</strong> St. Paul. But critics have<br />

always accounted <strong>Acts</strong> xv. as <strong>the</strong>ir chief support for<br />

<strong>the</strong> hypo<strong>the</strong>sis that <strong>the</strong> <strong>Acts</strong> could not have been<br />

composed by St. Luke. This support is now, I think<br />

I may assume, withdrawn. Perhaps I am not too<br />

bold in hoping that <strong>the</strong>y will draw <strong>the</strong>refrom <strong>the</strong><br />

logical conclusions.

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