8 God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. 9 He made no distinction between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith. 10 Now then, why do you try to test God by putting on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
Act 15:8
God, who knows the heart—Implying that the state of the heart before God is the real test of one's rightful standing in the visible Church; and though this cannot be certainly known to men, no principle can be sound which goes in the face of it.
Act 15:9
He made no distinction between us and them outhen diekrinen metaxu heemoon te kai autoon—He distinguished nothing (first aorist active indicative) between (both dia and metaxu) both te kai us and them. In the matter of faith and conversion God treated us Jews as pagan and the pagan as Jews.
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown Commetary
Robertson's New Testament Word Pictures
Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of International Bible Society.
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