Acts 15:7 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And when there had been much disputing,— The debate which arose in this assembly, may indeed prove that there were some in thechurch at Jerusalem who had not a due regard to the authority of the apostles; but it cannot afford any just argument against their inspiration; for this dispute does not appear to have been among the apostles themselves; and if they really had debated the case a while, their decision at last might have been under an unerring direction. There seems no reason to conclude, that their inspiration was always so instantaneous and express, as to supersede any deliberation in their own minds, or any consultation with each o