Teks -- Galatians 2:10 (NET)

2:10 They requested only that we remember the poor, the very thing I also was eager to do.

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Robertson: Gal 2:10 - Only

Only ( monon ).

One item was emphasized.

Robertson: Gal 2:10 - We should remember

We should remember ( mnēmoneuōmen ).

Present active subjunctive, "that we should keep on remembering."

Robertson: Gal 2:10 - Which very thing

Which very thing ( hȯ̇auto touto ).

Repetition of relative and demonstrative, tautology, "which this very thing."In fact Barnabas and Saul had done it before (Act 11:30). It was complete victory for Paul and Barnabas. Paul passes by the second public meeting and the letters to Antioch (Acts 15:6-29) and passes on to Peter’ s conduct in Antioch.

Vincent: Gal 2:10 - Only

Only

With only this stipulation.

Vincent: Gal 2:10 - We should remember

We should remember ( μνημονεύωμεν )

The only instance in N.T. of this verb in the sense of beneficent care. No instance in lxx. In Psa 9:12, there is the thought but not the word.

Vincent: Gal 2:10 - The poor

The poor ( τῶν πτωχῶν )

The poor Christians of Palestine. Comp. Act 24:17; Rom 15:26, Rom 15:27; 1Co 16:3; 2Co 9:1. For the word, see on Mat 5:3. In lxx ordinarily of those who are oppressors, or of those who are quiet in contrast with the lawless.

Vincent: Gal 2:10 - The same which

The same which ( ὃ - αὐτὸ τοῦτο )

Lit. which , this very thing . The expression is peculiarly emphatic, and brings out the contrast between Judaising hostility and Paul's spirit of loving zeal. Rev. which very thing .

Wesley: Gal 2:10 - Of the poor

The poor Christians in Judea, who had lost all they had for Christ's sake.

JFB: Gal 2:10 - remember the poor

Of the Jewish Christians in Judea, then distressed. Paul and Barnabas had already done so (Act 11:23-30).

JFB: Gal 2:10 - the same

The very thing.

JFB: Gal 2:10 - I . . . was forward

Or "zealous" (Act 24:17; Rom 15:25; 1Co 16:1; 2Co. 8:1-9:15). Paul was zealous for good works, while denying justification by them.

Clarke: Gal 2:10 - Only they would that we should remember the poor

Only they would that we should remember the poor - They saw plainly that God had as expressly called Barnabas and me to go to the Gentiles as he had called them to preach to the Jews; and they did not attempt to give us any new injunctions, only wished us to remember the poor in Judea; but this was a thing to which we were previously disposed.

Calvin: Gal 2:10 - That we should remember the poor

10.That we should remember the poor It is evident that the brethren who were in Judea labored under extreme poverty: otherwise they would not have burdened other churches. That might arise both from the various calamities which befell the whole nation, and from the cruel rage of their own countrymen, by which they were every day stript of their possessions. It was proper that they should receive assistance from the Gentiles, who owed to them the inestimable benefit of the gospel. Paul says, that he was forward to do, that he faithfully performed, what the apostles had requested from him, and thus he takes away from his adversaries a pretext which they were desirous to seize.

TSK: Gal 2:10 - that

that : Act 11:29, Act 11:30, Act 24:17; Rom 15:25-27; 1Co 16:1, 1Co 16:2; 2Cor. 8:1-9:15; Heb 13:16; Jam 2:15, Jam 2:16; 1Jo 3:17

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Poole: Gal 2:10

These pillars and apostles, which have among you the greatest reputation, added no new doctrine to us, gave us nothing new in charge; they only desired us that we would be careful, wheresoever we went, to make collection for the poor Christians in Judea, who either by selling all they had to maintain the gospel in its first plantation, or by the sharp persecution which had wasted them, or by reason of the famine, were very low; nor was this any new thing, I had before done it, and was very forward to do it again, had they said nothing to us about it.

Gill: Gal 2:10 - Only they would that we should remember the poor // the same which I also was forward to do

Only they would that we should remember the poor,.... Not in a spiritual sense, as some have thought, though these the apostle was greatly mindful of; but properly and literally the poor as to the things of this world; and may design the poor in general, everywhere, in the several churches where they should be called to minister, and particularly the poor saints at Jerusalem; who were become such, either through the frequent calamities of the nation, and a dearth or scarcity of provisions among them, and which affected the whole country; or rather through the persecutions of their countrymen, who plundered them of their goods for professing the name of Christ; or it may be through their having given up all their substance into one common stock and fund, as they did at first, and which was now exhausted, and that in a great measure by assisting out of it the preachers who first spread the Gospel among the Gentiles; so that it was but just that they should make some return unto them, and especially for the spiritual favours they received from them, as the Gospel, and the ministers of it, which first went out of Jerusalem: the "remembering" of them not only intends giving them actual assistance according to their abilities, which was very small, but mentioning their case to the several Gentile churches, and stirring them up to a liberal contribution:

the same which I also was forward to do; as abundantly appears from his epistles to the churches, and especially from his two epistles to the Corinthians. Now since the apostles at Jerusalem desired nothing else but this, and said not a word concerning the observance of the rites and ceremonies of the law, and neither found fault with, nor added to the Gospel the apostle communicated to them, it was a clear case that there was an entire agreement between them, in principle and practice, and that he did not receive his Gospel from them.