In those days: there was made a great disputation, Peter rising up said to them: Men brethren, you know that of old days God among us chose, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the Gospel, and believe. And God which knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost as well as to us, and hath put no difference between us and them, by faith purifying their hearts. Now therefore why tempt you God, to put a yoke upon the necks of the Disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? But by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we believe to be saved, in like manner as they also. And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had done among the Gentiles by them. And after they held their peace, James answered, saying: Men brethren, hear me. Simon hath told how God first visited to take of the Gentiles a people to his name. And to this accord the words of the Prophets, as it is written: After these things I will return, and will re-edify the tabernacle of David which was fallen, and the ruins thereof I will re-edify, and set it up: that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all nations upon whom my name is invocated, saith the Lord that doeth these things. To our Lord was his own work known from the beginning of the world. For the which cause I judge, that they which of the Gentiles are converted to God, are not to be disquieted, but to write unto them that they refrain themselves from the contaminations of idols, and fornication, and strangled things, and blood. For Moyses of old times hath in every city them that preach him in the Synagogues, where he is read every Sabboth.