The choice of Silas may have been influenced by his positive attitude toward the Gentile mission and by the authority that he as a prophet and a spokesman for the governing body could lend in delivering their decisions to believers in Syria and Cilicia.
הוא גם היה נביא והוסמך מטעם הגוף המנהל להעביר את ההחלטות למאמינים בסוריה ובקיליקיה.