Léctio Actuum Apostolorum (15,7-21)
In diébus illis: Cum magna conquisítio fíeret, surgens Petrus dixit ad eos: “Víri fratres, vos scitis quóniam ab antíquis diébus in vobis elégit Deus per os meum audíre gentes verbum evangélii et crédere; et qui novit corda, Deus, testimónium perhíbuit illis dans Spíritum Sanctum sicut et nobis; et nihil díscrevit inter nos et illos fide puríficans corda eórum. Nunc ergo quid tentátis Deum impónere íugum super cervícem discipulórum, quod neque patres nostri neque nos portáre potúimus? Sed per grátiam Dómini Iésu crédimus salvári quemádmodum et illi.” Tácuit autem omnis multitúdo, et audiébant Bárnabam et Paulum narrántes quanta fecísset Deus signa et prodígia in géntibus per eos. Et postquam tacuérunt, respóndit Iacóbus dicens: “Víri fratres, audíte me. Símeon narrávit quemádmodum primum Deus visitávit súmere ex géntibus pópulum nómini suo; et huic concórdant verba Prophetárum, sicut scriptum est: ‘Post hæc revértar et reædificábo tabernáculum David, quod décidit, et dirúta eíus reædificábo et érigam illud. ut requírant réliqui hóminum Dóminum et omnes gentes, super quas invocátum est nomen meum, dicit Dóminus fáciens hæc nota a sǽculo.’ Propter quod ego iúdico non inquietári eos, qui ex géntibus convertúntur ad Deum, sed scríbere ad eos, ut abstíneant se a contaminatiónibus simulacrórum et fornicatióne et suffocáto et sánguine. Móyses enim a generatiónibus antíquis habet in síngulis civitátibus, qui eum prædícent in synagógis, ubi per omne sábbatum légitur.”
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.
