Council of Jerusalem: Difference between revisions

{{cquote|In conclusion, therefore, it appears that the least unsatisfactory solution of the complicated textual and exegetical problems of the Apostolic Decree is to regard the fourfold decree as original (foods offered to idols, strangled meat, eating blood, and unchastity—whether ritual or moral), and to explain the two forms of the threefold decree in some such way as those suggested above. An extensive literature exists on the text and exegesis of the Apostolic Decree. ... According to Jacques Dupont, "Present day scholarship is practically unanimous in considering the [[Alexandrian text-type|'Eastern' text]] of the decree]] as the only authentic text (in four items) and in interpreting its prescriptions in a sense not ethical but ritual" ...}}