Acts:15:8-9

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rwp @Acts:15:8 @{Which knoweth the heart } (\kardiogn “st ˆs \). Late word from \kardia \ (heart ) and \gn “st ˆs \ (known , \gin “sk “\). In the N .T . only here and strkjv @1:24 | which see . {Giving them the Holy Spirit } (\dous to pneuma to hagion \). And before their baptism . This was the Lord 's doing . They had accepted (11:18 |) this witness of God then and it was true now of these other Gentile converts . rwp @Acts:15:9 @{He made no distinction between us and them } (\outhen diekrinen metaxu h ˆm “n te kai aut “n \). He distinguished nothing (first aorist active ind .) between (both \dia \ and \metaxu \) both (\te kai \) us and them . In the matter of faith and conversion God treated us Jews as heathen and the heathen as Jews . {Cleansing their hearts by faith } (\t ˆi pistei katharisas tas kardias aut “n \). Not by works nor by ceremonies . Peter here has a thoroughly Pauline and Johannine idea of salvation for all both Jew and Greek . Cf . strkjv @10:15 |.

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