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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 3, 1911

3313.—What Law?

By Editor

What law is referred to in Acts 21:20? Paul is accused, and in verse 24 it says he keeps the law.

W. B.

Evidently the law as used there includes all the Mosaic law as held by the Jews, which not only included the ceremonial, but the Decalogue as well. No doubt Paul followed still many of these observances. To the Jews he became a Jew that he might win the Jews. And he took upon himself this vow, prescribed in Jewish law, to show to the brethren that he still regarded the faith of his fathers. In this way he may have made a mistake. It certainly did not work out as his friends thought it would. The record tells us just what he did and just what the result was, and we must draw our own conclusion. We have an account in Numbers 6 of the performance of some such ceremonies as were carried out by the apostle and others who joined with him in this act.