Atti 15:18

18 cerchino il Signore, dice il Signore che fa queste cose, le quali a lui son note ab eterno.

Atti 15:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 15:18

Known unto God are all his works
These are the words of James, and not of Amos; all the things which God does in the church and in the world, they were all foreknown and predetermined by him: from the beginning of the world; or from eternity; even all his works of creation, providence and grace: the Alexandrian copy, and Beza's most ancient copy, and the Vulgate Latin version, read in the singular number, "his work"; the work of the conversion of the Gentiles; this was fixed and resolved on by God in eternity; he knew it would be, because he had determined it should be; and accordingly he foretold it, and spoke of it in various periods of time before it came to pass; and therefore it should not be looked upon as some new and strange thing, that was never known, spoken or heard of: and this holds true of every other work of God, and agrees with what the Jews sometimes say ^F26, that

``every work which is renewed in the world, the holy blessed God has commanded (or ordered) it from the day the world was created.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Zohar in Exod. fol. 78. 2. Vid. ib. in Lev. fol. 25. 4.

Atti 15:18 In-Context

16 Dopo queste cose io tornerò e edificherò di nuovo la tenda di Davide, che è caduta; e restaurerò le sue ruine, e la rimetterò in piè,

17 affinché il rimanente degli uomini e tutti i Gentili sui quali e invocato il mio nome,

18 cerchino il Signore, dice il Signore che fa queste cose, le quali a lui son note ab eterno.

19 Per la qual cosa io giudico che non si dia molestia a quelli dei Gentili che si convertono a Dio;

20 ma che si scriva loro di astenersi dalle cose contaminate nei sacrifici agl’idoli, dalla fornicazione, dalle cose soffocate, e dal sangue.