The sense is:
On the basis of all we have just heard, I decree that we don't trouble the Gentile converts by insisting that they keep Moses' Law...
20 but that we write unto them [to the Gentile congregations], [requiring nothing more of them than] that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
21 [Which is sufficient] For [because], [any Jewish members of their congregations who may still wish to observe their traditions, can always easily hear about such things simply by visiting any local synagogue, seeing] Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
...thus we can avoid needlessly burdening the Gentiles, without feeling that we are depriving and aggravating the Jews.
...thus we can avoid needlessly burdening the Gentiles, without feeling that we are depriving and aggravating the Jews.
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