Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 11:18 - 11:18

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 11:18 - 11:18


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18. ἡσύχασαν, they held their peace. But though those who listened to St Peter’s narrative were satisfied that God had now called Gentiles as well as Jews to be of His Kingdom, there were others who, some perhaps with a real but misguided zeal for the Law, some, as St Paul says (Gal 6:13), from vain-glory, maintained the necessity for the observance of the older covenant, and hence arose dissensions in the Church from a very early time.