_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 apostles and Church decided that Gentile Christians need not be circumcised. Galatians 2:2. I WENT U... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 same cause was the answer to their appeal (Acts 11:29; Romans 15:26; 1 Corinthians 16:3; 2 Corinth... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 2:11. WHEN PETER WAS COME TO ANTIOCH I WITHSTOOD HIM TO THE FACE.—The strongest proof of the independence of his apostleship in relation to the other apostles, and an unanswerable argument against the Romish dogma of the supremacy of St. Peter. Galatians 2... [ Continue Reading ]