Hechos 16:21

21 Enseñan costumbres que nosotros, los romanos, no podemos practicar porque son ilegales».

Hechos 16:21 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 16:21

And teach customs
The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read in the singular number, "custom or law"; referring to the doctrine of salvation by Christ, in whose name the spirit of divination was cast out of the maid, and whom they took for a new deity; and so concluded that the apostle and his company were introducing a new religious law or custom, the worship of another God: which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being
Romans;
for the city of Philippi was a Roman colony, and so the inhabitants of it called themselves Romans; or these men might be strictly such, who were transplanted hither; and with the Romans, it was not lawful to receive, observe, and worship, a new or strange deity, without the decree of the senate ^F12.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Tertull. Apolog. c. 5. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 2.

Hechos 16:21 In-Context

19 Las esperanzas de sus amos de hacerse ricos ahora quedaron destruidas, así que agarraron a Pablo y a Silas y los arrastraron hasta la plaza del mercado ante las autoridades.

20 «¡Toda la ciudad está alborotada a causa de estos judíos! —les gritaron a los funcionarios de la ciudad—.

21 Enseñan costumbres que nosotros, los romanos, no podemos practicar porque son ilegales».

22 Enseguida se formó una turba contra Pablo y Silas, y los funcionarios de la ciudad ordenaron que les quitaran la ropa y los golpearan con varas de madera.

23 Los golpearon severamente y después los metieron en la cárcel. Le ordenaron al carcelero que se asegurara de que no escaparan.