Acts 15:20

Verse 20. That we write unto them. Expressing our judgment, or our views of the case. This verse has greatly perplexed commentators. The main grounds of difficulty have been, (1.) why fornication--an offence against the moral law, and about which there could be no dispute--should have been included; and, (2.) whether the prohibition to abstain from blood is still binding. That they abstain. That they refrain from these things, or wholly avoid them. Pollutions of idols. The word rendered pollutions means any kind of defilement. But here it is evidently used to denote the flesh of those animals that were offered in sacrifice to idols. See Ac 15:29.