Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Acts 15:22-35
HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS.—Acts 15:22-35The Letter from the Church at Jerusalem; or, the Publication of the SettlementI. The resolution of the Church.—1. To prepare an encyclical letter, to be sent round the Gentile Churches. This suggestion, made by James (Acts 15:20), was formally adopted by the whole Church, under the visible leadership of the apostles and elders (Acts 15:22), and at the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the supreme president of the assembly (Acts 15:28). 2. To forward it to... read more
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Acts 15:32
Prophets; not properly so called, from any gift of foretelling things to come, but as doctors and teachers in the church, Ephesians 4:11, expounding Moses and the prophets, and showing how and what they speak concerning Christ; proving out of them, that he was the Messiah, as Philip had done, Acts 8:35. Confirmed them: see Acts 14:22; Acts 18:23. read more