"The Spirit of the Apostles is not a guide equal or greater than the Lord, thus Paul within his letters does not have as much authority as has Christ" (Carlstadt, Canonicis Scripturis (1520)
"The Spirit of the Apostles is not a guide equal or greater than the Lord, thus Paul within his letters does not have as much authority as has Christ" (Carlstadt, Canonicis Scripturis (1520)
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Acts 15:24 and 21:25 originally had no implication that the 12 Apostles' decision at the conference in Acts 15 implied the Torah / Law had no application to Gentiles at all.
Yet, the KJV took a minuscule 1175 from the 10th century to add that into Acts 15:24 where all early texts lack it.
The KJV did this likewise with Acts 21:25 (when read with Acts 21:24.)
24 Them take, and purify thyself with them, and be at charges with them, that they may shave their heads: and all may know that those things, whereof they were informed concerning thee, are nothing; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, and keepest the law.25 As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.” Acts 21:24-25 KJV
However, "that they observe no such thing, save only" is added -- it is not in the earliest Bibles, but appears in "apparentlly" only a "marginal note." The Cambridge Bible College comment is:
"that they observe no such thing, save only] The oldest texts omit all these words, and they appear merely to be a marginal comment, echoing in part, but with a negative, the language of Acts 15:5; Acts 15:24. They do not represent any part of the form given in that chapter of the letter of the synod."
https://biblehub.com/commentaries/acts/21-25.htm If you look at THE BOOK OF ACTS IN ITS FIRST CENTURY SETTING,
VOLUME 1, The Book of Acts in Its Ancient Literary Setting, Edited by Bruce W. Winter and Andrew D. Clarke (1993), at page 22 appears APPENDIX: ACTS AND THE PROBLEM OF ITS TEXTS by Peter Head. He explains that these words in Acts 15:24 are not originally present, but are like other so-called Western (Codex Bezae predominantly) are later additions to the canon.
He provides a list of Bible sources which predominantly come very late. As to 21:25 he lists several sources but he does not specify the "marginal" comment that the Cambridge Bible commentary said was the apparent source.
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