Manly Luscombe Commentary on NT
Galatians 2:7,8
They saw that I was to preach to the Gentiles and they were to continue with the Jews.
The same God who gave Peter power to work with the Jews, gave Paul the power to work among the Gentiles.
They saw that I was to preach to the Gentiles and they were to continue with the Jews.
The same God who gave Peter power to work with the Jews, gave Paul the power to work among the Gentiles.
Verse 7. _BUT CONTRARIWISE_] They were so far from wishing me to alter my plan, or to introduce any thing _new_ in my doctrine to the Gentiles, that they saw plainly that my doctrine was the _same_ as...
THE GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION - The duty of preaching the gospel to the uncircumcised part of the world; that is, to the Gentiles Paul had received this as his unique office when he was converted a...
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...
SAW. Greek. eidon. App-133. WAS COMMITTED, &c.. I have been entrusted with. Greek. _pisteuo_. App-150. A, &c.. even as Peter (with that) of the circumcision....
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...
_contrariwise_ See 2Co 2:6-7; 1 Peter 3:9. In both these passages the word expresses the strongest possible contrast. It is used absolutely, -The very reverse was the case when they saw, &c." _when th...
-So far from their communicating any further revelation to me, their conduct was the very opposite of this. They recognised the completeness of the Gospel which I preach, by consenting to the arrangem...
ἈΛΛᾺ ΤΟΥ̓ΝΑΝΤΊΟΝ, 2 Corinthians 2:7; 1 Peter 3:9; 3Ma 3:22[74]. So far from adding to my knowledge of the Gospel, they (_a_) accepted my statement of my commission (Galatians 2:7) and
_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...
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...
ΤΟΥΝΑΝΤΊΟΝ (G5121) напротив, ΊΔΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть. Temp, или причинное _part._ ΠΕΠΊΣΤΕΥΜΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΙΣΤΕΎΩ (G4100) верить. _Pass._ быть облеченным доверием,...
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:...
_VERSES 7, 8. BUT CONTRARIWISE, WHEN THEY SAW THAT THE GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION WAS COMMITTED UNTO ME, AS THE GOSPEL OF THE CIRCUMCISION WAS UNTO PETER; [FOR HE THAT WROUGHT EFFECTUALLY IN PETER T...
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; CONTRARIWISE. So far from adding any new light to ME,...
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...
2:7 me, (e-16) Or 'I was entrusted with the glad tidings of the uncircumcision.'...
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...
The reference is not to two different doctrines, but to two different spheres of the Gospel's operation....
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...
God sent both Peter and Paul to declare the *good news about Jesus Christ. Paul wanted to emphasise that God sent them. Men did not send them. They did not decide themselves to go. They were both *apo...
GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION — _i.e.,_ a gospel for the uncircumcised. The elder Apostles recognised St. Paul because they saw that his teaching was fundamentally the same as their own. At the same ti...
(7-9) So far from contributing anything _new_ to my stock of doctrine, they were content to confirm and ratify what I taught already....
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 emphatic opening of this verse, Ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον, gives prominence to the thorough contrast presented by James, Cephas and John to the cold reserve of these suspicious and prejudiced opponents. It...
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...
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the (f) uncircumcision was committed unto me, as [the gospel] of the circumcision [was] unto Peter; (f) Among the Gentiles, as Peter had to preach i...
As to Peter was that of the circumcision. Calvin pretends to prove by this, that St. Peter and his successors are not head of the whole Church, because St. Peter was only the apostle of the Jews. But...
(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...
7._But, on the contrary. _They immediately _gave him the right hand of fellowship_. (Galatians 2:9.) Consequently they gave their testimony to his doctrine, and without any exception; for they produce...
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 CONTRARIWISE, WHEN THEY SAW THAT THE GOSPEL,.... James, Cephas, and John, were so far from blaming or correcting anything in the apostle's ministry, or adding anything to it, that they highly appr...
But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as _the gospel_ of the circumcision _was_ unto Peter; Ver. 7. _As the gospel of, &c._] He equalizeth himse...
_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...
GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION; that he was commissioned by Christ to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, as Peter was to the Jews....
BUT CONTRARIWISE, WHEN THEY SAW THAT THE GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION WAS COMMITTED UNTO ME, AS THE GOSPEL OF THE CIRCUMCISION WAS UNTO PETER;...
The result of the visit to Jerusalem:...
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...
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 CONTRARIWISE, WHEN THEY SAW; they were so far from contradicting any thing that I had preached, that when they understood from me, and Barnabas, _\who ACTS 15:12, declared in the council what mira...
but contrariwise, when they saw that I had been intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the gospel of the circumcision...
Galatians 2:7 But G235 contrary G5121 saw G1492 (G5631) that G3754 gospel G2098 uncircumcised G203 me G4100 ...
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...
‘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...
_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...
Galatians 2:7. WHEN THEY SAW, from the communications of Paul (Galatians 2:2) and the abundant results of his missionary labors among the Gentiles (Acts 15:12). THAT I AM (not was) INTRUSTED. I have...
BUT CONTRARIWISE (αλλα τουναντιον). But on the contrary (accusative of general reference, το εναντιον). So far from the three championing the cause of the Judaizers as some hoped or even the positio...
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...
ON THE CONTRARY. "Not only did they not make any new suggestions, they did accept me as being an apostle equal with themselves!!! They saw that God had sent me to the Gentiles, just as He sent Peter t...
_To the apostleship of the circumcision._ THE RESULTS OF THE CONFERENCE Barnabas must have been struck with the coincidence between his own conduct towards the newly-enfranchised converts at Antioch...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:7 As an apostle, Paul was not inferior to Peter: Paul was assigned to evangelize THE UNCIRCUMCISED (Gentiles), while Peter was sent to THE CIRCUMCISED (Jews). Therefore 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 Thessalonians 2:4; 1 Timothy 2:7; 2 Peter 3:15; 2 Timothy 1:11;...
The gospel of the uncircumcision (to eujaggelion thv ajkrobustiav). The phrase only here in N. T. The gospel which was to be preached to the uncircumcised - the Gentiles. Lightfoot aptly says : "It de...
But when they saw — By the effects which I laid before them, Galatians 2:8; Acts 15:12. That I was intrusted with the gospel of the uncircumcision — That is, with the charge of preaching it to the unc...
Note here, 1. That the ordinance both of Peter and Paul, for the office and work of apostles, was alike divine. The former, St. Peter, was to be the minister of the circumcision: that is to exercise h...