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NASB | Acts 15:8 "And God, who knows the heart, testified to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 15:8 "And God, who knows and understands the heart, testified to them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He also did to us; |
Subject: Giving them the holy spirit [sic]? |
Bible Note: Greetings Ray, You are most certainly correct that the thrust of the chapter is putting to rest the question of whether the Gentiles need to be circumcised to be saved. Peter was first justifying the inclusion of the Gentiles before continuing on to the subject of circumcision, ie whether the message of salvation was right to give to the Gentile. But it is most certainly not the thrust of the subject matter included in this chapter, as you have so correctly stated. The reason I used lower case when I said, "The spirit represented here is the Holy Spirit," was because of the initial reference of "spirit" as an unspecified object, ie if I was to say "the diety represented here is God," I would not capitalize diety. In Christ, LGC |