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Apostolic Council

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Apostolic Council. The meeting in Jerusalem described by Paul in Galatians 2. 1–10 between himself, James, Peter, and John. It approved Paul's missionary preaching to gentiles independent of the Jewish law. The account in Acts 15. 1–21 attributes to the council a set of minimal stipulations (to abstain from anything polluted by idols, from fornication, from meat of strangled animals, and from blood. The event is usually dated to 48, less often to 51 CE.

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