Act 15:9 | RWP | e4.org | He made no distinction between us and them ( ουθεν διεκρινεν μεταξυ ημων τε κα αυτων ). He distinguished nothing (first aorist active ind.) between (both δια and μεταξυ ) both ( τε κα ) 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 ( τη πιστε καθαρισας τας καρδιας αυτων ). Not by works nor by ceremonies. Peter here has a thoroughly Pauline and Johannine idea of salvation for all both Jew and Greek. Cf. .

‏ Acts 15:9

He made no distinction between us and them ( ουθεν διεκρινεν μεταξυ ημων τε κα αυτων ). He distinguished nothing (first aorist active ind.) between (both δια and μεταξυ ) both ( τε κα ) 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 ( τη πιστε καθαρισας τας καρδιας αυτων ). Not by works nor by ceremonies. Peter here has a thoroughly Pauline and Johannine idea of salvation for all both Jew and Greek. Cf. 10:15.