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Although it might not seem so at first, the Council of Jerusalem—the first council of the Church—brings to mind mandates, particularly vaccine mandates. The letter the Council sends from the apostles and elders in Jerusalem to the Gentile communities in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia around A.D. 50 begins, “Since we have heard that some of our number who went out without any mandate from us have upset you with their…