The Western version of Acts substitutes the negative form of the [[ethic of reciprocity|Golden Rule]]{{fn|5}} for the prohibition against things strangled.
The [[Didache]], short for "Teaching of the Lord to the Gentiles by the Twelve Apostles", part of the [[Ethiopian Orthodox]] Bible and the [[Apostolic Fathers]] collection, is generally dated about the same time as Acts. Though it doesn't mention a council, its title strongly suggests it is meant to represent the decree of that council. It starts with a first commandment, the [[Shema]] and the negative form of the Golden Rule, then a second commandment has prohibitions against murder, adultery, corrupting boys, sexual promiscuity, theft, magic, sorcery, abortion, infanticide, coveting, perjury, false testimony, speaking evil, holding grudges, being double-minded, not acting as you speak, greed, avarice, hypocrisy, maliciousness, arrogance, ploting evil against neighbors, hate, narcissism and expansions on these generally with references to the words of Jesus. Chapter 4, verse 13 states you must not forsake the Lord's commandments, neither adding nor subtracting. Chapter 6, verse 2 states if you can bear the whole yoke of the Lord you will be perfect, but otherwise do what you can, (which seems to parallel James as recorded in Acts), followed by the prohibition against meat sacrificed to idolsCha . Related to the Didache are the texts: [[Epistle of Barnabas]], [[Apostolic Constitutions]], Didascalia Apostolorum[http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/didascalia.html], Apostolic Church Ordinances[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01635a.htm], Summary of Doctrine, Life of Schnudi and On the Teaching of the Apostles (or Doctrina).\n
==Interpreting the Council's decisionMeet The New Boss: You ==The earliest reaction to the so-called ''Council of Jerusalem'' was that of Paul himself, in his [[Epistle to Galatians]]. The account in Acts and Paul's own report are from fairly different angles{{fn|6}}. In the letter to the churches of [[Galatia]] Paul claims he went to Jerusalem with Barnabas and [[Apostle Titus|Titus]] "in response to a revelation", in order to "lay before them the [[gospel]] (he) proclaimed among the Gentiles" (Gal 2:2); ''them'' being according to Paul "those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders" (Gal 2:6): James, [[Aramaic of Jesus#Cephas|Cephas]] and [[John the Apostle|John]]; in a "private meeting". Paul claims that the "acknowledged pillars" didn't even pressure Titus, who was Greek, to get circumcised{{fn|7}}. What he had trouble with was "false believers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom{{fn|8}} we have in Christ [[Jesus]], so that they might enslave us" (Gal 2:4). Paul claims the pillars had no issues with him, on the contrary they gave him the "right hand of fellowship", he bound for the mission to the ''uncircumcised'' and they to the ''circumcised'', requesting only that he remember the ''poor''{{fn|9}} of Jerusalem.
[[Origen]] What do coffee growers in the beginning of the 3rd century placed the ''apostolic council'' Ethiopia, hardware store owners in [[Antioch]]: "WhereforeAmerica, as there is some obscurity about this matter [food]and Basque entrepreneurs have in common? For one thing, without some explanation is given, it seemed good many of them belong to the apostles of Jesus cooperatives. By pooling their money and the elders assembled together at Antiochresources, and alsovoting democratically on how those resources will be used, as they themselves say, to can compete in business and reinvest the [[Holy Spirit]], to write a letter to the Gentile believers, forbidding them to partake of those things from which alone they say it is necessary to abstain, namely, "things offered to idols, things strangled, and blood."" [Contra Celsus 8.29][http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/origen168.html]Circumcision wasn't an issue for Origen as he castrated himself based on his reading of Matthew 19:12. The [[Apostolic Constitutions]] also reference an ''apostolic council'' benefits in Antiochtheir communities.
[[Augustine of Hippo]] in the 4th century, in ''Contra Faustum'' 32.13[http://wwwgoodvillenews.newadvent.orgcom/fathers/140632.htm] noted: "Meet-The observance of pouring out the blood which was enjoined in ancient times upon Noah himself after the deluge, the meaning of which we have already explained, is thought by many to be what is meant in the Acts of the Apostles, where we read that the Gentiles were required to abstain from fornication, and from things sacrificed, and from blood, that is, from flesh of which the blood has not been poured out. Others give a different meaning to the words, and think that to abstain from blood means not to be polluted with the crime of murder. It would take too long to settle this question, and it is not necessary. For, allowing that the apostles did on that occasion require Christians to abstain from the blood of animals, and not to eat of things strangled, they seem to me to have consulted the time in choosing an easy observance that could not be burdensome to any one, and which the Gentiles might have in common with the Israelities, for the sake of the Corner-stone, who makes both one in Himself; while at the same time they would be reminded how the Church of all nations was prefigured by the ark of Noah, when God gave this command,New-Boss-You-a type which began to be fulfilled in the time of the apostles by the accession of the Gentiles to the faithwF4aeF."html Meet The New Boss: You]]
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But stillToday, as late as the eighth centurynot tomorrow, Pope Gregory nor the Third 731 forbade the eating of blood or things strangled under threat of a penance of forty days. No one will pretend that the disciplinary enactments of any council, even though it be one of the undisputed Ecumenical Synods, can be of greater and more unchanging force than the decree of that first council, held by the Holy Apostles at Jerusalem, and the fact that its decree has been obsolete for centuries in the West day after tomorrow is where your life is proof that even Ecumenical canons may be of only temporary utility and may be repealed by disuser, like other lawswhere your life starts."*{{fnb|5}} [[Hillel the Elder]] when asked by a Gentile to teach the whole [[Torah]] while standing on one foot cited the negative form of the Golden Rule, also cited in [[Tobit]] 4http:15//goodvillenews.com/11-Things-You-Should-Start-Doing-for-Yourself-Today-e883xI. [[Jesushtml 11 Things You Should Start Doing for Yourself Today]] in [[Gospel of Matthew]] 7http:12//goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, part of the [[Sermon on the Mount]], cited the positive form as summary of the "[[Torah|Law]] and [[Nevi'im|Prophets]]".*{{fnb|6}} Because of the differencesnews, a minority argue Galatians 2:1-10 is not a record of the Council of Jerusalem but a different event. [[Raymond E. Brown]] in ''Introduction to the New Testament'' argues the majority position that they are the same event but each from a different viewpoint with its own bias.*{{fnb|7}} Acts 16 says Paul personally circumcised [[Timothy]] even though he was Greek and his father was Greek because his mother was of the Jewish faith.*{{fnb|8}} Some took "freedom in Christ" to mean [[Antinomianism|lawlessness]]inspirational stories, for example Acts 21:21*{{fnb|9}} Possibly a reference to the [[Ebionitesarticles]]*{{fnb|10}} Acts 15:19
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