Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Galatians 2:10
Only [they would] that we should remember the poor. Continue the
collections in the Gentile churches for the poor at Jerusalem. We have
seen Paul constantly active in this work (1 Corinthians 16:1).
NOTE--In order to understand this epistle and parts of others, the
reader must keep in mind the two great divisions of apostolic
Christianity, the Jew and the Gentile. Of the Jewish, Peter, James and
John were leaders; of the Gentile, Paul and Barnabas. These leaders
were in full harmony, but the two sections of the church were not
equally harmonious. The Jewish Christians, as a rule, still kept the
Jewish law, and hoped for the conversion of the whole Jewish nation,
until the destruction of Jerusalem; one extreme wing of them insisted
that the Gentiles should keep the Jewish law, also. It is with this
wing that Paul comes in conflict. Here in this chapter, and also in
Acts 15, we have accounts of the conflict. After Jerusalem was
destroyed, the temple in ruins, and the church removed elsewhere, the
Jewish Christians gradually gave up the Jewish law, and the two
divisions welded into one body in which there was neither Jew nor
Gentile, but all one in Christ.
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Galatians 2:10
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