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Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
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Verse 19. Wherefore I judge, and join my judgment with Peter. Saint John Chrysostom thinks that James had a special authority in the Council, as bishop of Jerusalem, and because of the great veneration, which those zealous for the Jewish law had for him: but his power was certainly inferior to that of Saint Peter, who was head of all, as Saint John Chrysostom teacheth, hom. iii. on the Acts.
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