The Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus and Philemon: With Introductions and a Commentary
The Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus and Philemon: With Introductions and a Commentary
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...Peter; (for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the 9 same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles: ) and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...Peter; (for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the 9 same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles: ) and when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the 10 heathen, and they unto the circumcision. Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward much less should he be now? The freedom then at Jerusalem was an argument a fortiori for freedom now in Galatia. 4. Unawares. Noyes renders, stealthily. Came in privilv. Or, as Noyes translates, crept in. He charges an unworthy motive. Into bondage, i. e., into subjection to the Mosaic Law. 5, 6. The sentences along here are very complicated and broken, members taken up and then dropped before being completed. The main thought is started, but is soon lost sight of in some side issue and when it is resumed again, the sentence is not in harmony with the stitch that has been dropped. Paul was an unflinching defender of the Christian liberty, as opposed to the old ceremonial bondage of the Law. He had quite as much to do in saving Christianity from dwindling into a feeble Jewish sect, as in converting the Gentiles. In conference added nothing to me. Locke paraphrases, "I learned nothing from them, for they taught me nothing." 7, 8. There was a division of labor. Suum cuique. Each to his own work; Peter to the Hebrew apostleship, Paul to the Gentile. Not that either were any thing of themselves, but only agents of the mighty inworking and overworking Power. 9. None of that irreconcilable conflict which Baur and other interpreters have alleged existed in the early Church, or determined the character of t...
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