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sengers from Ephesus at a later time. This ref. fairly implies that the arrange- ment made had been successful in Gal. ; the business being completed there some while ago, the Ap. makes no observation upon it in the extant Ep. to the Gal., which was probably contemporary with rand 2 Cor. (See Lt., Introd. to Gal.). On the question as to the part of “ Gal- atia”’ intended, see Introd. to Gal. in this Comm., and notes on the relevant passages in Acts.
Ver. 2 rehearses the rule previously laid down for Galatia: ‘‘On every first (day) of the week let each of you by him- self (= at home) lay up, making a store (of it), whatever he may be prospered in”.—ptav waBBarov—echad shabbath or bashshabbath—according to Hebrew idiom (see parls.) for the days of the week, the term κυριακὴ ἡμέρα (Rev. i. 10) not being yet current, while the heathen name (dies solis) is avoided. The earliest men- tion of this Christian day, going to show that the First Day, not the Sabbath, was already the Sacred Day of the Church (cf. Acts xx. 7), appropriate therefore for deeds of charity (cf. Matt. xii. 12).----παρ᾽ ἑαντῷ, apud se, chez lui (see parls).— θησαυρίζων, ‘making a treasure,” de- scribes each householder '' paulatim cu- mulum aliquem faciens”’ (Gr.), till at the end the accumulated store should be paid over.—evodarat (from εὖ and 686s, to send well on one’s way) is pr. sbj., with ἂν of contingency and 6, τι in acc. of specifica- tion: any little superfluity that Provi- dence might throw in a Cor. Christian’s way, he could put into this sacred hoard (cf. 2 Cor. viii. 12). Many in this Church were slaves, without wages or stated in- come. The Vg. renders, ‘‘ quod si bene placuerit,” as though reading 6, τι ἐὰν εὐδοκῇ; and Bg. wrongly, ‘‘ quod com- modum sit’.—tva µή, ὅταν ἔλθω, τότε «.7.A.: ‘that there may not be, when I come, collections going on then”. P. would avoid the unseemliness and the difficulty of raising the money suddenly, at the last moment; and he wishes when he comes to be free to devote himself to
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