Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 2:3
VERSE 3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
VERSE 3. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.
Verse Galatians 2:3. _BUT NEITHER TITUS, WHO WAS WITH ME_] The apostle proceeds to state that his account was so satisfactory to the apostles, that they not only did not require him to insist on the...
BUT NEITHER TITUS, WHO WAS WITH ME - Paul introduces this case of Titus undoubtedly to show that circumcision was not necessary for salvation. It was a case just in point. He had gone up to Jerusalem...
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...
NEITHER nut even. Gr _oude_. WITH. Greek. _sun_. App-104. BEING. (though) being....
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...
_neither Titus_ Better, NOT EVEN TITUS, who, as Paul's colleague, might have thus had more ready access to the Jews. _being a Greek_ unlike Timothy, Acts 16:1-3. _was compelled_ Scholefield renders,...
ἈΛΛʼ. So far from any hindrance to my work resulting from the interview. ΟΥ̓ΔῈ. Not even though Titus was both my companion and a Greek. Τ. Ὁ ΣῪΝ ἘΜΟῚ. Actually with me in Jerusalem, exposed to all...
_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...
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...
_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...
ΏΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Уступительное _part._ ("хотя"), ΉΝΑΓΚΆΣΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΆΝΑΓΚΆΖΩ (G315) оказывать давление на кого-л., призывать, принуждать. _Aor._ является терми...
BUT NEITHER TITUS—WAS COMPELLED, &C.— This served as a plain evidence to the Galatians, that the circumcising of the convert Gentiles was no part of the gospel which he laid before these men of note,...
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...
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: BUT. So far were they from regarding me as running in vain, that 'not even Titus who was with me, though he was a...
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...
BUT NEITHER (RV 'not even') TITUS.. WAS COMPELLED] This was a crucial instance of the application of the principle at stake. A demand was made by the rigid Judaists that Titus should be circumcised. T...
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...
Barnabas was a *Jewish Christian. But Titus was a *Gentile Christian. ‘*Greek man’ may mean that Titus came from the country called Greece. But the *Jews often referred to the *Gentiles as ‘Greek men’...
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...
BUT NEITHER TITUS... — This and the two following verses are parenthetical. The result of the private conference with the Judaic Apostles is not given till Galatians 2:7; but without waiting for this,...
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...
_Howbeit even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, had not been compelled to be circumcised_. The last verse related the steps taken by Paul to disarm opposition. He was, however, no less resolute i...
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...
_Neither Titus....circumcised, who had been a Gentile. A convincing proof, says St. John Chrysostom, that even according to the other apostles, the Gentiles converted, were not subject to the Jewish l...
(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...
3._But neither Titus_. This is an additional argument to prove that the Apostles held the same views with himself; for he had brought to them an uncircumcised man, whom they did not hesitate to acknow...
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 NEITHER TITUS, WHO WAS WITH ME, BEING A GREEK,.... There was such an agreement between the apostle, and his fellow apostles at Jerusalem, even about this article of the necessity of circumcision,...
But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: Ver. 3. _Was compelled to be circumcised_] _i.e._ I would not yield he should be; lest I should seem to countenance...
_But neither Titus_, &c. As if he had said, That the apostles, to whom I communicated the doctrine which I preach, acknowledged it to be the true gospel of Christ, is evident from this, that not even...
NEITHER TITUS-WAS COMPELLED; or required to be circumcised. This showed, in direct opposition to the false teachers among the Galatians, that they did not consider circumcision needful....
BUT NEITHER TITUS, WHO WAS WITH ME, BEING A GREEK, WAS COMPELLED TO BE CIRCUMCISED;...
FURTHER CONFIRMATION OF PAUL'S APOSTLESHIP. Paul refuses to yield to false brethren:...
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...
Titus, a Greek, Gentile. Judiazers tried to force him to be circumcised. (See Acts 15:1) The case of Timothy was different. (See Acts 16:1-3) There is a diference between a choice to avoid problems...
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...
The apostle brings this as an instance of the apostles at Jerusalem agreeing with him in his doctrine, as to the non-necessity of circumcision; for though Titus was with him, who was a native Gentile,...
But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised...
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V to be understood as in alliance with Judaism! When indeed he says, that "neither was Titus circumcised,"[82] Tertullian Against Marcion Book V to be circumcised,...
Galatians 2:3 Yet G235 not G3761 Titus G5103 who G3588 with G4862 me G1698 being G5607 (G5752) Greek...
‘But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.' ‘With me.' Titus was there as a companion of Paul and Barnabas. (‘With _me_ does not necessarily exclude Barnaba...
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...
_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 2:3. YET NOT EVEN TITUS.... BEING A GREEK, or although he was a Greek, that is, a heathen. Far from declaring my labors fruitless and disapproving my gospel, the Jewish Apostles did not forc...
BEING A GREEK (Hελλην ων). Concessive participle, though he was a Greek.WAS COMPELLED TO BE CIRCUMCISED (ηναγκασθη περιτμηθηνα). First aorist passive indicative of αναγκαζω and first aorist passiv...
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...
WAS NOT FORCED TO BE CIRCUMCISED. The _circumcision party_ would expect Peter, James, and John (the "apostles of circumcision") to take their side in the argument. Paul was opposing centuries of anti-...
_But neither Titus, who was with me._ BUT NEITHER TITUS 1. This incident is introduced by way of evidence, not by way of apology. 2. The circumcision of Titus is inconsistent with individual expres...
GALATIANS—NOTE ON GALATIANS 2:3 The Jerusalem apostles agreed that Titus, a Gentile, did not need to be circumcised. Thus, says Paul, they agreed no Gentile needed to be circumcised. But some FALSE BR...
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 Corinthians 9:20; 1 Corinthians 9:21; Acts 15:24; Acts 16:3;...
Neither [ο υ δ ε]. More correctly, not even. So far were they from pronouncing my labor in vain, that not even Titus was compelled to be circumcised, although he was a Greek. Though approving Paul's p...
But neither was Titus who was with me — When I conversed with them. Compelled to be circumcised — A clear proof that none of the apostles insisted on the circumcising gentile believers. The sense is,...
Observe here, 1. The instance and evidence which St. Paul brings of the apostles at Jerusalem, agreeing with him, both in their doctrine and in their practice; and that was Titus, who being. Gentile,...