Actes 18:15

15 Mais s'il s'agit de disputes relatives à une doctrine, et à des noms, et à votre loi, vous y aviserez vous-mêmes, car je ne veux point être juge de ces choses.

Actes 18:15 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 18:15

But if it be a question of words
"Or of the word", what the Jews called the word of God, which Gallio did not pretend to understand: "and names"; as the names of God, of Jesus, and of Christ, whether he is God, and the Messiah:

and of your law;
concerning circumcision, whether these Christians, and the proselytes they make, are obliged unto it:

look ye to it;
suggesting that this was a matter that lay before them, and they were the proper judges of, and might determine for themselves, since they had the free exercise of their religion, and a right of judging of everything that respected that within themselves, and for which they were best furnished, as having a more competent knowledge of them; as the Arabic version renders it, "and ye are more learned in these things"; and most conversant with them:

for I will be no judge of such matters;
and it would be well if every civil magistrate would act the same part, and not meddle with religious affairs, any further than to preserve the public peace.

Actes 18:15 In-Context

13 En disant: Celui-ci persuade aux hommes de servir Dieu d'une manière contraire à la Loi.

14 Et comme Paul allait ouvrir la bouche, Gallion dit aux Juifs: S'il s'agissait, ô Juifs, de quelque injustice ou de quelque crime, je vous écouterais, autant qu'il serait raisonnable;

15 Mais s'il s'agit de disputes relatives à une doctrine, et à des noms, et à votre loi, vous y aviserez vous-mêmes, car je ne veux point être juge de ces choses.

16 Et il les renvoya du tribunal.

17 Alors tous les Grecs, ayant saisi Sosthène, chef de la synagogue, le battaient devant le tribunal, et Gallion ne s'en mettait point en peine.