Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsActs 21
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Acts 21 in the BibleActs 21:24
Keeping the law.
◦ All the observations of the Law were now in themselves dead and unprofitable, yet till further propagation of the Gospel, they were not damnable to the keepers, nor offensive to God, but might be observed even of the Christian Jews. And for fear of scandalizing the weak of that nation, newly converted, or prone to receive the faith, the Apostles by God's suggestion did think it good to observe them as occasion required.
- ◦ Avoiding of scandal in things not unlawful.
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Acts 21:9
Virgins.
◦ S. Luke noteth specially that his daughters were Virgins: meaning (no doubt) that they were of the state, profession, or purpose of perpetual virginity, not only that they were young maids unmarried: and that they were the rather for that, endued with the gift of prophecy, as S. Hierom saith li. 1. adv. Iovin. c. 24. See Oecum. c. 29. in hunc locum.