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but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

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A.T. Robertson

A.T. Robertson

A.T.Robertson

19th Century
Southern Baptist
19th Century

Questions (ζητηματα). Plural, contemptuous, "a parcel of questions" (Knowling).

About words (περ λογου). W…

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century
Presbyterian
18th Century

Of words. A dispute about words; for such he would regard all their controversies about religion to be.

And names

Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century
Anglican
19th Century

But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law.—The second noun is in the singular number in the Greek. St. …

Charles Spurgeon

Charles Spurgeon

CharlesSpurgeon

19th Century
Baptist
19th Century

Persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law. And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matte…

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor's Bible Commentary

Expositor'sBible Commentary

20th Century
20th Century

The word “law” (GK 3795) in v.13 is somewhat ambiguous. Undoubtedly when it was first used by Paul’s antagonists in their synagogue, it referred to…

John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

Of words and names. These words are not well arranged. Yet Gallio speaks this way of the law of God contemptuously, as if the Jewish relig…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

But if it be a question of words
"Or of the word", what the Jews called the word of God, which Gallio did not preten…

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

Paul was about to show that he did not teach people to worship God contrary to the law; but the judge would not allow the Jews to complain to him a…

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