Ver. 8. ἐνεργήσας. When this verb is applied to the work of the Spirit in the hearts of men, the preposition ἐν is added to it. The absence of é before Πέτρῳ and ἐμοί indicates that this verse is not describing the work of grace in the hearts of Peter and Paul, but the work of God for them, i.e., for the furtherance of the Gospel which they preached.
Ver.g. The name of James is placed vefore those of the Apostles Peter and John. This was probably because as permanent head of the local Church he presided at meetings (cf. Acts xxi. 18). The well-known strictness of his own
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δοκοῦντες στύλοι εἶναι, δεξιὰς ἔδωκαν ἐμοὶ καὶ Βαρνάβα κοινωνίας, ο ε ἊΣ η | 3 a ἔθ 3 A δὲ 3 a De ἐν , - ἵνα ἡμεῖς 1 εἰς τὰ ἔθνη, αὐτοὶ δὲ εἰς τὴν περιτομήν - το. μόνον τῶν
ττωςΏν ἵνα μνημονεύωμεν, ὃ καὶ ἐσπούδασα αὐτὸ τοῦτο ποιῆσαι. 11. Ὅτε δὲ ἦλθε Κηφᾶς 2 εἰς ᾿Αντιόχειαν, κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῷ
Ίημεις NBFGKLP; 2Κηφας NABCHP;
legal observance gave special weight to his support of Greek freedom on this occasion. A comparison of his address with the subsequent resolution of the Council suggests that he took a leading part in drafting some part of it at least. —ot δοκοῦντες στύλοι εἶναι. The habit- ual application to the Church of figures borrowed from a temple of God suggested the description of Apostles as pillars. It occurs also in Clement of Rome and Ignatius. The repetition of the phrase ot δοκοῦντες is apparently designed to contrast the high estimate formed of the Three with the unfounded and indefinite estimate of others who had proved to be mere names.—iva . The mutual understanding between the two groups of Apostles obviously did not imply an absolute restriction of each to one section of the Church. All converts alike were members of a single united Church: circumstances of themselves forbade any definite division: Paul opened his minis- try everywhere in the synagogue, and numbered Jews as well as Greeks amidst his converts. So Peter again is next found at Antioch.
Ver. το. pévov... ἵνα. A verb must be supplied out of δεξιὰς ἔδωκαν expressive of the pledge that the other Apostles exacted from Barnabas and Paul. τῶν πτωχῶν. These words are displaced from their grammatical position after pynpovevwpev in order to lay stress upon the poor being the central object of the appeal. Judea suffered often from famine in apostolic times, and Christians were probably the worst sufferers owing to religious ill-will and social persecution. This passage implies chronic poverty. So also does the history of the Pauline contribution, which was not an effort to meet a special emergency, for it took more than a year to collect, but a fund organised to meet a permanent demand for systematic help.—é. The addition of τοῦτο after αὐτό shows that 6 is not the object of ποιῆσαι, but is used with adverbial force for a connecting particle, as ini. 7, as for which.—xai ἐσπούδασα: not I also, for this would require καὶ ἐγώ