Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Galatians 2:5
We maintained our position firmly in order to preserve for you (and for all like you) the distinctive truth of the gospel, viz. that faith in Christ is the one condition of salvation.
We maintained our position firmly in order to preserve for you (and for all like you) the distinctive truth of the gospel, viz. that faith in Christ is the one condition of salvation.
GALATIANS 2:5 oi-j ouvde, {A} The omission of oi-j in several witnesses (syrp Marcion Greek mssacc. to Ambrosiaster Ephraem) was probably deliberate, in order to rectify the anacoluthon. Omission of...
Verse Galatians 2:5. _TO WHOM WE GAVE PLACE BY SUBJECTION_] So fully satisfied was he with his Divine call, and that he had in preaching among the Gentiles acted in strict conformity to it, that he d...
TO WHOM WE GAVE PLACE BY SUBJECTION, NO, NOT FOR AN HOUR - We did not submit to this at all. We did not yield even for the shortest time. We did not waver in our opposition to their demands, or in the...
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...
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...
THE MAN WHO REFUSED TO BE OVERAWED (Galatians 2:1-10)...
GAVE PLACE. yielded. Greek. _eiko_. Only here. SUBJECTION. Greek. _hupotage_. See 2 Corinthians 9:13. NO, NOT. not even. Greek. oude. See Galatians 2:3. This emphatic statement is the Figure of spee...
_To whom … an hour_ In some early copies the negative seems to have been omitted. "We yielded by a temporary concession". This would of course imply that Titus _was_circumcised. But the received readi...
The construction of this passage is irregular and uncertain, and the meaning of several words and phrases obscure. But the general argument would seem to be as follows: -I conferred indeed with the Ap...
ΟἿΣ ΟΥ̓ΔῈ. Omitted by D* Irenlat (“et iterum ait Ad horam cessimus subjectioni”). Tert., Jerome and “Ambrosiaster” also mention the omission as a Latin reading, but prefer the evidence of the Greek ma...
_A parenthesis, which however illustrates the main subject, referring to an incident which marked an important stage in the history of his stay at Jerusalem_. (Galatians 2:3) Strong representations we...
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...
ΕΪΞΑΜΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΕΪΚΩ (G1502) вручать, отдавать, давать возможность, позволять, ΎΠΟΤΑΓΉ (G5292) _dat. sing._ подчинение. _Dat._ ссылки или отношения: "мы не уступали подчинению". Определен...
DISCOURSE: 2054 CHRISTIAN AND UNCHRISTIAN PERTINACITY Galatians 2:5. _To whom we. gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you_. NEVER, from the...
TO WHOM WE GAVE PLACE, &C.— The _neither_ in the 3rd verse, according to propriety of speech, ought to have an _or_ to answer it; and accordingly, in this verse, the word ουδε should be so rendered, _...
TEXT 2:3-5 (3) But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: (4) and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who come in privily to spy out our li...
see notes on vs 4...
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. 'To whom not, even for an hour did we yield, by subjection.' Ellicott renders the Gre...
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...
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...
Paul refused to agree with what the false teachers taught. It was not the truth. Paul was firm. He would not give in. Paul did not let anyone *circumcise Titus. *Gentiles do not have to become *Jews....
Not everyone in Jerusalem was pleased with Paul. There were people who opposed him. Paul spoke very strongly when he spoke about them. He said that they were not Christians at all. They had the wrong...
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...
TO WHOM — _i.e.,_ to the Jewish agitators, though probably not so much in their own persons as through the Apostles who advocated concession to their views. WE GAVE PLACE. — St. Paul himself, with Ba...
CHAPTER 7 PAUL AND THE FALSE BRETHREN. Galatians 2:1 "FOURTEEN years" had elapsed since Paul left Jerusalem for Tarsus, and commenced his Gentile mission. During this long period-a full half of his...
εἴξαμεν. Paul here couples Barnabas with himself in recording the determined resistance offered by both to the demand for the circumcision of all Christians preferred at Antioch. Barnabas was at that...
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...
To whom we gave place by (c) subjection, no, not for an hour; that the (d) truth of the gospel might continue with (e) you. (c) By submitting ourselves to them, and betraying our own liberty. (d) Th...
_To whom we yielded not. St. Jerome takes notice that in some Latin copies read, to whom we yielded; but this is not the true reading by the Greek and Syriac. (Witham)_...
(1) В¶ Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. (2) And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among t...
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...
5_. To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour_. This steadiness was the seal of Paul’s doctrine. For when false brethren, who wished nothing more than a ground of accusation against him...
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...
TO WHOM WE GAVE PLACE BY SUBJECTION,.... Meaning not the apostles, elders, and brethren at Jerusalem, who did not insist upon the observance of the rituals of the law as necessary, but were one and al...
To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. Ver. 5. _To whom we gave place_] We must stick close to the truth, and stickle hard for...
NO, NOT FOR AN HOUR; they did not yield at all to the false brethren....
FURTHER CONFIRMATION OF PAUL'S APOSTLESHIP. Paul refuses to yield to false brethren:...
TO WHOM WE GAVE PLACE BY SUBJECTION, NO, NOT FOR AN HOUR, THAT THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL MIGHT CONTINUE WITH YOU. After proving that he had not been made an apostle by any man's teaching, but by divine...
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...
When it comes to false doctrine, do not "give an inch. "Give them an inch and they will take a mile." If not here, where? It not now, when?...
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...
To these Judaizing Christians the apostle did not think fit to yield one jot, not for the least time, nor in so much as one precedent; having a desire that these Gentile churches might not be perverte...
to whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you. [But the sequel showed that I did not run in vain, for my voice and my author...
Epistle of Ignatius to the Tarsians But ye have not "given place by subjection to them, no, not for one hour."[8] Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III And again he says, "For an hour we did give plac...
Galatians 2:5 whom G3739 not G3761 yield G1502 (G5656) submission G5292 for G4314 hour G5610 that G2443 truth...
‘To whom we gave place in the way of subjection, no, not for an hour, that the truth of the Gospel might continue with you.' Paul stresses that he, Barnabas and Titus had had no doubts about the matt...
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...
_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...
Galatians 2:5. These false brethren, it must be remembered, required circumcision and the observance of the whole ceremonial law not only from the Jewish, but also from the Gentile Christians, and tha...
_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...
NO, NOT FOR AN HOUR (ουδε προς ωραν). Pointed denial that he and Barnabas yielded at all "in the way of subjection" (τη υποταγη, in the subjection demanded of them). The compromisers pleaded for the...
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...
IN ORDER TO KEEP THE TRUTH. Paul's motive was to preserve the _truth!_ If he had given in and allowed Titus to be circumcised, that would have compromised the truth. [In the case of Timothy (Acts 16:3...
_To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour._ THE TRUTH IN THE CHURCH I. The truth of the gospel is essentially embodied in the doctrinal articles, and the devotional services, of the C...
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 2:13; Acts 15:2; Colossians 1:5; Colossians 2:4;...
We gave place by subjection [ε ι ξ α μ ε ν τ η υ π ο τ α γ η]. We, Paul and Barnabas. Gave place or yielded, N. T. o By the subjection which was demanded of us. The noun only in Paul and the Pastorals...
To whom we did not yield by submission — Although in love he would have yielded to any. With such wonderful prudence did the apostle use his Christian liberty ! circumcising Timothy, Acts 16:3, becaus...