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Act 15:5. Ἐξανέοτησαν, rose up) before the rest, at Jerusalem.-Φαρισαίων, of the Pharisees) Even converted persons have from time to time accompanying them their former state of the understanding, of the will, and of the affections.-πεπιστευκότες, who had believed) who had passed from Judaism to Christianity.-[δεῖ, it is needful) They were not waiting for the decision of the apostles.-V. g.]-τὸν νόμον Μωϋσέως, the law of Moses) Comp. Act 15:24. They are speaking of the whole law: ch. Act 13:39, note. [The division of the law into the moral and ceremonial was not as familiar to the Jews as it is to us; for both alike were then in force.] And yet in this passage a more express mention of the moral law is not to be thought requisite: for Paul, although he denied that righteousness (justification) is to be obtained by it, yet “established the law:” Rom 3:31. And therefore the Pharisees who believed, in saving that salvation could not be obtained without circumcision, had no occasion to say more expressly, that salvation could not be obtained without the moral law; although they were not far removed from this very sentiment, which therefore Peter refutes, Act 15:10-11.