Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 15:29

29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep your selves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.

Of th[illegible: 1 letter]se see more largely, Verse 20.

They were wont to carry home, and Feast upon part of the Sacrifices they had offered unto their false gods; nay, they did not, withou[illegible: 1 letter] reproach, eat of any greater Beasts (as Oxen and Sheep) but they always first offered some of them unto their Idols. And it was accounted no small impiety to eat [non-Latin text not transcribed], part of any Beasts which they had not first offered up to some or other of their gods.

For this reason they might not eat of any thing that died of its self, as Deut 14.21. because the Blood was not gone ou[illegible: 1 letter] of it.

Mentioned here, because so commonly practiced amongst the Gentiles, and yet not esteemed a sin. Hence also, 1 Thess. 4.3. the Apostle lay[illegible: 1 letter] a very great charge against it.

The ordinary Apprecation wherewith their Letters were concluded, in which they wished health and strength to the party they wrote unto; instead of which word, some ancient Copies read [non-Latin text not transcribed]: which is rendred, walk in the Ho[illegible: 1 letter]y Ghost; or, the Holy Ghost carrying, or enabling of you. A wish or prayer becoming these holy Men that made it. They who have found the necessity of the Spirits assistance, de[illegible: 1 letter]ire it above all things, for such as they wish well unto.

Marginal references: Chap. 21.25.; Levit. 17 14.