1 . A/a, after) At an interval of fourteen years between the two journeys to Jerusalem.
2. Kara avoxaXv^iv, by revelation) As Paul had revelations he had no need to learn from men. This revelation had been com municated to him for an important reason. — avede/^v) set before them [communicated], as equals are wont to do, not that they should confirm me, but that they should confirm others, Acts xv. 2. — «Oro/>, to them) at Jerusalem. This is treated of ver. 3, 4. — xar /a/ai/) apart, privately) all were not capable of compre hending it. — ro?; doxovffi, who were held in reputation) In anti-
1 It is the case before God, that, etc. — ED.
thesis to Paul, who was less acknowledged. [The apostles are principally intended, ver. 9. — V. g.] comp. 2 Cor. xi. 5. Hesy- chius ; doxowrss, 01 tvdo%oi. This is brought under consideration, ver. 6, 7. — WKUC,, lest by any means) this word depends on avsfe- wv, I set forth [communicated]. I should run, says he, or had run in vain, if circumcision had been judged necessary. — rps^ca, I should run) with the swift victory of the Gospel.
3. Ovdi, not even) We did not even allow the necessity of cir cumcising Titus, who was with me, to be laid upon us.
4. A/a ds) But this matter concerning Titus happened on ac count of, etc. — dsj but [Engl. Vers. And that] is here a particle ex planatory and intensive. — Kaptiadxroug) <rapa here and in fffjXdov, denotes by the way, stealthily, underhand. — 4
false brethren) He had shown greater respect to those, who were professed Jews, as in the case of Timothy, Acts xvi. 3. — o'/nveg, who) Comp. Acts xv. 1, 24. — xarcwxwjjrfaw) to spy out, and destroy.
5. T/j JcrorayJj, by subjection) There is here a limitation. We would willingly have yielded for love [but not in the way of subjection], — 55 dxfidsia) the truth of the Gospel, the pure Gospel, not another, ch. i. 6 : which false brethren attempt to substitute. The same mode of speaking is found, ver. 14 ; Col. i. 5. Truth, precise, unaccommodating, abandons nothing, that belongs to itself, admits nothing, that is inconsistent with it. — vp&s, you) Greeks. We defended for your sakes, what you now reject.
6. 'A-TTO) Supply o'l, 01 avb, x.r.X., and construe, ovdev poi diapepzi, oKoTo! ffoTt ijVav dtfo, x.r.X. It is of no importance to me, what sort of persons in particular [* whatsoever'] those were, who were of the number of those more distinguished. The preposition is put in the same way, while the article is omitted, Mark v. 35 ; Luke xi. 49. Not only the three, James, Peter, and John, were
highly distinguished. He therefore says dxb ruv. o/ viz. o/ it^sp \iav dftoffroXoi ; 2 Cor. xi. 5. — slvat n) to be (ac counted) something, among those, who did not so esteem Paul. — oirofoi KOTS) norl is here enclitic, not an adverb of time. — &sbg, God) Paul followed the judgment of God. He asserts the Divine authority ; he does not disparage that of the apostles. — yap, for) The reason assigned [aetiologia] not of the thing but