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Atti 16:21

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21 e predicano dei riti che non è lecito a noi che siam Romani né di ricevere, né di osservare.

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Atti 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F12 Tertull. Apolog. c. 5. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. l. 2. c. 2.
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Atti 16:21 In-Context

19 Ma i padroni di lei, vedendo che la speranza del loro guadagno era svanita, presero Paolo e Sila, e li trassero sulla pubblica piazza davanti ai magistrati,
20 e presentatili ai pretori, dissero: Questi uomini, che son Giudei, perturbano la nostra città,
21 e predicano dei riti che non è lecito a noi che siam Romani né di ricevere, né di osservare.
22 E la folla si levò tutta insieme contro a loro; e i pretori, strappate loro di dosso le vesti, comandarono che fossero battuti con le verghe.
23 E dopo aver loro date molte battiture, li cacciarono in prigione, comandando al carceriere di custodirli sicuramente.
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