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Galatians 2:6
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;
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;
Verse Galatians 2:6. _THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT_] των δοκουντων ειναι τι. _Those who were of acknowledged reputation_; so the words should be understood, see Galatians 2:2. The verb δοκειν, _to...
BUT OF THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT - See Galatians 2:2. This undoubtedly refers to those who were the most eminent among the apostles at Jerusalem. There is an apparent harshness in our common tra...
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...
OF. from. Greek. _apo_. App-1. SEEMED. Greek. _dokeo_, as in Galatians 2:2. SOMEWHAT. Greek. _ti_, neut. of _tis_. App-123. WERE. once were. MAKETH, &c.. matters (Greek. _diaphero)_ NOTHING (Greek...
_But of these_ Rather, "But from those". The sentence would have run regularly "From those of reputation … I gained no new enlightenment", but having been interrupted by a parenthesis (whatsoever … pe...
The construction is again broken and irregular. The punctuation of the Rev. Vers. makes the sense clear. "But from those who were reputed to be somewhat (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to m...
_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...
[ὁ] ΘΕῸΣ. The article is read by אREVELATION 17 but omitted by Text. Rec. with BCD. 6. ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν δοκούντων εἶναί τι. The Apostle now reverts to Galatians 2:2, after his parenthesis about Titus (Galat...
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...
_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...
ΔΟΚΟΎΝΤΩΝ _praes. act._ pari, от ΔΟΚΈΩ, _см._ Galatians 2:2. ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Инфинитив-дополнение к основному гл. ΌΠΟΊΟΊ ΠΟΤΕ (G3697; G4218) какими они были людьми. Общ...
BUT OF THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT,— St. Paul having shewn, in the preceding verses, what passed between the _false brethren,_ and him, now proceeds to shew what passed between _the chief of the b...
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 6. BUT OF THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT, WHATSOEVER THEY WERE, IT MAKETH NO MATTER TO ME._ VERSE 6. God accepteth no man's person. Paul is quoting Moses: "Thou shalt not respect the person o...
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: Greek...
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...
2:6 nothing; (d-34) It may be translated 'But from those who were conspicuous as being somewhat; (whatsoever they were it makes no difference to me; God does not accept man's person;) to me indeed [or...
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...
BUT OF THOSE, etc.] RV 'But from those who were reputed to be somewhat'; those to whom was accorded the greatest influence. MAKETH NO MATTER] does not affect the merits of my claim. IN CONFERENCE ADD...
Most Christians considered that the leaders in Jerusalem were the most important *church leaders. These leaders had known Jesus very well. Jesus had called them *apostles. But Paul said that a person’...
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...
The Apostle returns from his digression on the case of Titus to give the result of his experience with the elder Apostles, in continuation of Galatians 2:3. “I did indeed hold conference with them pri...
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...
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...
The author here resumes the broken thread of the narrative, which he interrupted after Galatians 2:2 in order to show that his conciliatory attitude at Jerusalem was not due to weakness or irresolutio...
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...
6._Of those who seemed to be somewhat. _(42) Paul is not yet satisfied, without making the Galatians understand that he had learned nothing from Peter and the apostles. Hence Porphyry and Julian (43)...
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...
BUT OF THESE, WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT,.... Not the false brethren, but the Apostles James, Cephas, and John, who were חשובים, "men of great esteem": high in the opinion of all good men; not that the...
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: Ver....
_But of those who seemed to be somewhat_ Who were most esteemed among the apostles; _whatsoever they were_ How eminent soever; _it maketh no matter_ No difference; _to me_ So that I should alter eithe...
OF THOSE; the leading men referred to, verse Galatians 2:2. MAKETH NO MATTER; their reputation did not affect his standing as an apostle, or the correctness of his preaching and conduct. GOD ACCEPTE...
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...
Those who held high positions in the church. High position does not alter the facts. Paul is talking about those who led the conference in Acts 15:1-41....
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...
BUT OF THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT: the word translated _seemed, _ is the same with that in GALATIANS 2:2, which we there translate _of reputation._ The apostle means the same persons that were of...
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 [Having exposed...
Galatians 2:6 But G1161 from G575 seemed G1380 (G5723) be G1511 (G5750) whatever G3697 G4218 were...
‘But from those who were reputed somewhat, (whatever they were it does not matter to me, God does not accept a man's person); they, I say, who were of repute, imparted nothing to me, but on the contra...
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 2:6. FROM THOSE REPUTED TO BE SOMETHING; lit., ‘those who have the estimation of being something,' that is, something great, or ‘those who are held in chief reputation,' ‘who are looked up t...
_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...
SOMEWHAT (τ). Something, not somebody. Paul refers to the Big Three (Cephas, James, and John). He seems a bit embarrassed in the reference. He means no disrespect, but he asserts his independence s...
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...
WHO SEEMED TO BE THE LEADERS. Peter, James, and John. WHAT THEY WERE. "The fact that they were with Christ in his earthly ministry, does not make me any less an apostle, because God doesn't _play favo...
_But of those who seemed to be somewhat._ AUTHORITY AND TRUST I. A man who has truth on his side can be indifferent to mere authority. Because-- 1. Mere authority has no weight with the Author of t...
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 2:1. THEN FOURTEEN YEARS AFTER.—From Paul’s conversion inclusive. I WENT AGAIN TO JERUSALEM.—The same visit referred to in Acts 15, when the council of 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 Peter 1:17; 2 Corinthians 11:21; 2 Corinthians 11:5; 2 Corinthians 12:11;...
Render the passage as follows : "But to be something from (at the hands of) those who were of repute, whatever they were, matters nothing to me (God accepteth not man's person), for those who were of...
And they who undoubtedly were something — Above all others. What they were — How eminent soever. It is no difference to me — So that I should alter either my doctrine or my practice. God accepteth no...
As if the apostle had said, "When. came up to Jerusalem, thus. behaved myself toward the false brethren, as. have here declared; but now, FOR THOSE WHO SEEMED TO BE SOMEWHAT, that is, Peter, James, an...