<p>15:29 <em>That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols- </em>Out of the four forbidden things, this is the one which differs from what was originally agreed. In :20 they had agreed to write forbidding the Gentile converts &quot;pollution of idols&quot;. But this changed to &quot;thing sacrificed to idols&quot; (although the word is only used in the LXX in Dan. 1:8 and Mal. 1:7 about ritually unclean food). What they agreed to write was not written- an interpretation of it was written. And it is exactly at this point that Paul's advice to the Corinthians differs appears to differ from that of the Jerusalem Council as here recorded. For he writes that there is nothing wrong of itself with eating things sacrificed to idols. Perhaps he considered that the decree of Jerusalem only affected limited geographical areas and wasn't binding on his mission see on :23; or that he considered the whole agreement to have failed to such an extent that it was null and void; or he perhaps considered that it was all dirty church politics and he was giving inspired advice which contradicted it.</p><p><i>From blood, from things strangled and from fornication. From which if you keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Farewell<em>- </em></i>Note that the Western Text <em>Codex Bezae</em> of Acts omits &quot;things strangled&quot;, leaving us with three basic laws about idolatry, fornication and bloodshed. In this case we would see an allusion to an uninspired passage in the Mishnah (<em>Aboth</em> 5) which taught that the captivity in Babylon came about &quot;on account of idolatry, fornication and bloodshed&quot;. In this case we would see God willing to compromise and accept the terms which were familiar to the orthodox Jewish minds, rather than merely telling them that their Mishnah was uninspired and so often hopelessly incorrect.</p>