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but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don`t want to be a judge of these matters."
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A Legally Protected Faith
Commentators emphasize the profound importance of Gallio's decision. By dismissing the case as an internal Jewish matter, he effectively treated Christianity as a sect of Judaism, which was a legally protected religion in the Roman Empire. Scholars note this set a crucial precedent that allowed the gospel to be preached freely for years to come.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Of words. A dispute about words; for such he would regard all their controversies about religion to be.
And names…
Questions (ζητηματα). Plural, contemptuous, "a parcel of questions" (Knowling).
About words (περ λογου). W…
19th Century
Anglican
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. …
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Baptist
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…
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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…
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…
