Weiss, Codex D, p. 82, refers the words to a reminiscence of Acts xx. Ig.
Times, December, 1898. Moreover it would seem that this ἔδοξε is quite in accordance with the manner in which Jewish Rabbis would formulate their de- cisions. — μηδὲν πλέον . . . βάρος: the words indicate authority on the part of the speakers, although in ver. 20 we read only of “enjoining”. St. Peter had used the cognate verb in ver. 10, cf. Rev. ii. 24, where the same noun occurs with a fos- sible reference to the decree, see Lightfoot, Galatians, p. 309, and Plumptre, ix loco. --ἐπάναγκες, 7.c., for mutual intercourse, that Jewish and Gentile Christians might live as brethren in the One Lord. There is nothing said to imply that these four abstinences were to be imposed as neces- sary to salvation; the receivers of the letter are only told that it should be well with them if they observed the decree, and we cannot interpret εὖ πράξετε as = σωθήσεσθε, At the same time the word was a very emphatic one, and might be easily interpreted, as it speedily was, in a narrower sense, Ramsay, St. Paul, p- 172; Lightfoot, Galatians, p. 310. Rendall compares the use of ἀναγκαῖος in Thuc., i., go.
Ver. 29. amex. : preposition omitted as in ver. 20, W.H.; so usually in classical Greek, but in N.T. ἀπέχ. ἀπό, 1 Thess. iv. 3, Vv. 22; so in LXX, Job 1. 1, 8, ii. 3, etc. On the difference in meaning in the two constructions, see Alford and Wendt, in loco.—et8wro8vTwv, see ver. 20.— πνικτοῦ: Omitted in Western text; see critical ποίες. --- διατηροῦντες ἑαυτοὺς: verb, only in Luke, cf. Luke ii. 51 (in LXX with ἐκ or ἀπό, Ps. xi. 7, Prov. xxi. 23). In Jas. i. 27 we have a somewhat striking similarity of expression (cf. also John xvii. 15).----εὖ πράξετε: ‘it shall be well with you,” R.V.; viz., through the peace and concord established in the Christian com- munity, cf. 2 Macc. ix. 19, so in classical Greek. The reading in A.V. is some- what ambiguous, but the Greek signifies