Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
Remember the poor - of the Jewish Christians in Judea, then distressed. Paul and Barnabas had already done so (Acts 11:28).
I also was forward - or 'zealous,' (; ; ; .) Paul was zealous for good works, while denying justification by them.
Verse 10. _ONLY_ THEY WOULD _THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR_] They saw plainly that God had as expressly called Barnabas and me to go to the _Gentiles_ as he had called them to preach to the _Jews_;...
ONLY THEY WOULD THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR - That is, as I suppose, the poor Christians in Judea. It can hardly be supposed that it would be necessary to make this an express stipulation in rega...
CHAPTER 2 _ 1. How Jerusalem had Confirmed the Gospel Paul Preached. (Galatians 2:1)_ 2. Peter's Failure; Paul's Rebuke and Testimony. (Galatians 2:11) Fourteen years passed by before he ever saw Je...
A crucial negotiation on equal terms with the Jerusalem leaders, fourteen years later possibly reckoned from Paul's conversion; more naturally from his first interview with Peter. (The point is import...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
Fourteen years afterwards I again went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me too. It was in consequence of a direct message from God that I went up; and I placed before them the gosp...
POOR. Greek. _ptochos_. App-127. The Lord's poor. See John 12:8. ALSO, &c.. was forward also. WAS FORWARD. was zealous. Greek. _spoudazo_. Elsewhere, Ephesians 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 2:17
One reservation was made which was in accordance with my own earnest desire. _the poor_ In the department of almsgiving no distinction was to be made. On two recorded occasions, St Paul conveyed alms...
10–2:21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE OF HIMSELF 10–12. _My one object is to please God, and to serve Christ, who revealed to me the Gospel_ (Galatians 1:10) I say “now,” for my words show clearly that I care n...
ΜΌΝΟΝ (Galatians 1:23) ΤΩ͂Ν ΠΤΩΧΩ͂Ν. Position for emphasis. The poor Jewish-Christians at Jerusalem for whom in fact St Paul carried alms at least twice, once earlier than this agreement (Acts 11:29-3...
_Main subject resumed; his relations with the Leaders_, (Galatians 2:6) But (reverting to Galatians 2:2) from those reputed to be something (I learned no new truths)—whatever their former personal rel...
_The next visit to Jerusalem and its result; my independence was fully recognized_ (Galatians 2:1) When did I see the Apostles next? Not till fourteen years after my last visit. I then went up to Jeru...
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩΜΕΝ _praes. conj. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить, ΈΣΠΟΎΔΑΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΠΟΥΔΆΖΩ (G4704) быть прилежным, стремиться, ΑΎΤΌ ΤΟΎΤΟ (G846; G3778) эта самая вещь, ΠΟΙΉΣΑΙ _aor. act....
DISCOURSE: 2055 REMEMBERING THE POOR Galatians 2:10. _Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do_. THE circumstances to which my text refers, were very...
THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR;— "That we should entreat all believers whom we meet with in our travels, to send some relief to the Christians in Jerusalem, who were at this time in great want and d...
TEXT 2:6-10 (6) But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth not man's person)they, I say, who were of repute imparted nothing to me:...
_VERSE 10. ONLY THEY WOULD THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR; THE SAME WHICH I ALSO WAS FORWARD TO DO._...
2 Paul's method in Jerusalem seems to have taken into account the low spiritual state and prejudices of the Jewish believers. It would have been practically impossible to impress the whole company wit...
HIS AUTHORITY RECOGNISED BY THE APOSTLES AT JERUSALEM AND MAINTAINED IN HIS CONFLICT WITH ST. PETER 1-10. It was not until upon the occasion of a subsequent visit to Jerusalem fourteen years later th...
ONLY _they would_] they made this one stipulation. THE POOR] cp. Acts 11:29; Acts 24:17; 1 Corinthians 16:3. I ALSO WAS FORWARD] RV 'zealous'; I was as eager to do this as they were to have me. 11-1
The ‘poor people’ refers to the poor Christians who lived in Jerusalem. Most of these people were probably *Jewish Christians. So Paul collected money from the *Gentile Christians that he visited. The...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 2 PAUL MET THE LEADERS IN JERUSALEM V1 Then I returned to Jerusalem 14 years later with Barnabas. Titus came with me too. V2 God showed m...
II. (1-10) The argument proceeds, still taking the shape of vivid personal retrospect: — The next visit at which I had any communication with the elder Apostles was after an interval of fourteen years...
THE POOR — _i.e.,_ at Jerusalem and in Judaea. St. Paul had already been the means of bringing contributions from the wealthier churches of Antioch to Jerusalem (Acts 11:29). This seems to have been g...
CHAPTER 8 PAUL AND THE THREE PILLARS. Galatians 2:6 WE have dealt by anticipation, in chap. 6, with several of the topics raised in this section of the Epistle-touching particularly the import of th...
μόνον … ἵνα. A verb must be supplied out of δεξιὰς ἔδωκαν expressive of the pledge that the other Apostles exacted from Barnabas and Paul. τῶν πτωχῶν. These words are displaced from their grammatical...
NARRATIVE OF THE AUTHOR'S VISIT WITH BARNABAS TO THE CHURCH OF JERUSALEM, HIS FRUITLESS NEGOTIATIONS WITH PARTY LEADERS, AND THE BROTHERLY WELCOME AND RECOGNITION HE RECEIVED FROM JAMES PETER AND JOHN...
STAND FIRM FOR TRUTH Galatians 2:1 The great controversy in Paul's career was over the initial rite of Judaism. It would have been comparatively calm, if he had been willing to admit that Christianit...
Having dealt with the divine origin of his teaching, the apostle now proceeded to show that his teaching was confirmed by the conference he had with the elders at Jerusalem fourteen years after his co...
(6) But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me: (7)...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
10._That we should remember the poor. _It is evident that the brethren who were in Judea labored under extreme poverty: otherwise they would not have burdened other churches. That might arise both fro...
He then speaks historically of his ministry, and of the question whether man had anything to do with it. His gospel was not according to man, for he had not received it from any man; he had not been t...
ONLY THEY WOULD THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR,.... Not in a spiritual sense, as some have thought, though these the apostle was greatly mindful of; but properly and literally the poor as to the thi...
_And when James_ Probably named first because he. was bishop of the church in Jerusalem; and _Cephas_ Speaking of him at Jerusalem, he calls him by his Hebrew name; _and John_ Hence it appears that he...
THE POOR; the needy Christians in Judea; obtain contributions from the Gentiles for them....
The result of the visit to Jerusalem:...
ONLY THEY WOULD THAT WE SHOULD REMEMBER THE POOR; THE SAME WHICH I ALSO WAS FORWARD TO DO. Paul's great agitation is here again evident, for he breaks the construction of the sentence again and again,...
THE JERUSALEM CONFERENCE Not until fourteen years later was there any consultation between Paul and the apostles generally. On this occasion (of which Acts 15:1 gives the history) Paul went with Barna...
Paul continued to raise funds for Jewish brethren. (See Romans 15:25-27; 1 Corinthians 16:1-2)...
1-10 Observe the apostle's faithfulness in giving a full account of the doctrine he had preached among the Gentiles, and was still resolved to preach, that of Christianity, free from all mixture of J...
These pillars and apostles, which have among you the greatest reputation, added no new doctrine to us, gave us nothing new in charge; they only desired us that we would be careful, wheresoever we went...
only they would that we should remember the poor; which very thing I was also zealous to do. [These men, as I say, in no way reproved or corrected me, but, on the contrary, when they saw, by the testi...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Their agreement, also, "to remember the poor"[102]...
Galatians 2:10 only G3440 that G2443 remember G3421 (G5725) poor G4434 thing G846 G5124 which G3739 I...
‘Only they would that we should remember the poor, which very thing I was always zealous to do.' The only conditions they had suggested had been charitable ones. This demonstrates how strong a feeling...
THE IMPORTANT RECOGNITION THAT NO RITUAL REQUIREMENT CAN EVER BE SEEN AS NECESSARY FOR SALVATION (GALATIANS 2:3). What follows may sound to be rather technical but it is in fact of the greatest impor...
Galatians 2:10. REMEMBER THE POOR of the Jewish Christians in Palestine, who suffered much from famine and persecution (comp. Acts 11:29). Charity should thus not only afford temporal relief to the ne...
_Excursus on the Relation of Paul to the Jewish Apostles._ Compare here my _History of the Apostolic Church_ (1853), pp. 245-260 and pp. 282 ff., 616 ff., and an able Excursus of Dr. Lightfoot on ‘St...
_Conference of Paul with the Jewish Apostles at Jerusalem_. Chapter Galatians 2:1-10. Continuation of the personal defence. Fourteen years after his conversion, Paul had an interview with the Apostles...
ONLY (μονον). One item was emphasized.WE SHOULD REMEMBER (μνημονευωμεν). Present active subjunctive, "that we should keep on remembering."WHICH VERY THING (ο--αυτο τουτο). Repetition of relative...
Galatians 2:6 Many, but One. It would seem as if in the slow progress of some men's minds the last discovery that they make is that truth is many-sided; they have gone on year after year mistaking a...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation,-_ He was sent by the church at Antioch, but the church...
CONTENTS: Paul's journey to Jerusalem and His contest for the truth. Justification by faith in Christ without works. CHARACTERS: Christ, Paul, Barnabas, Titus, Peter, James, Cephas, John. CONCLUSION:...
Galatians 2:1. _Then fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem, and took Titus,_ his fellow-labourer. Luke adds, “and others also.” Acts 15:2. We may gather from this, that Luke was of the co...
REMEMBER THE NEEDY. The NIV adds _continue_ to show it was something that was already going on and must be kept up. The TEV adds _in their group_ to show that this is concerned with one special group...
_That we should remember the poor._ A PLEA FOR THE POOR Good men do not always think alike. When they differ, it is commonly from ignorance and a want of mutual explanation; and therefore when their...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:10 THE POOR. This probably refers mainly to poor Jewish Christians in Jerusalem. Paul led an effort to help them financially (see Romans 15:25
_The poor._ The Jews, who, for Christ's sake, had been spoiled of their goods by their fellows (Heb. x. 34 and Chrysostom). Jerome, however, understands the poor who became so voluntarily to be meant,...
CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. Paul declares that he had compared his Gospel with Peter, James, and John, and that it had been approved of them so completely that there was nothing to be added...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 2:10. REMEMBER THE POOR.—Of the Jewish Christians in Judea then distressed. Paul’s past care for their poor prompted this request. His subsequent zeal in the...
EXPOSITION In the preceding chapter, St. Paul has been concerned to make clear the position that neither the gospel which he preached nor the commission which he held was derived from the older apostl...
Then fourteen years later I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and I took Titus with me also (Galatians 2:1). So Paul no doubt had been ministering in Syria and Cilicia, the area around Tarsus,...
1 Corinthians 16:1; 1 Corinthians 16:2; 1 John 3:17; 2 Corinthians 8:1;...
Only. With only this stipulation. We should remember [μ ν η μ ο ν ε υ ω μ ε ν]. The only instance in N. T. of this verb in the sense of beneficent care. No instance in LXX In Psalms 9:12, there is th...
Of the poor — The poor Christians in Judea, who had lost all they had for Christ's sake....