Acts 15:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Subverting your souls,— Unsettling your minds, The word ανασκευαζοντες is primarily and properly applied to the removing a vessel from one place to another. In a secondary sense, it implies the moving of the mind from one object to another, or unsettling it. When the apostles positively declare that they gave no such commandment to the persons who had troubled the converts, this was directly fixing the lie upon them, if they had pretended to use the apostles' name in imposing their tenets; and, as the matter of fact was known, would be a proper means of weakening their credit, and so render them less capable of doing mischief.