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They only asked us to remember the poor -- which very thing I was also zealous to do.
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A Practical Bond of Unity
Commentators explain that the request to "remember the poor" was primarily about unifying Jewish and Gentile believers. By collecting aid for the impoverished saints in Judea, Paul demonstrated his continued love for his kinsmen and tangibly connected the new Gentile churches to the mother church in Jerusalem, from which they had received the gospel.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Only they would that we should remember the poor. That is, as I suppose, the poor Christians in Judea. It can hardly be supposed that it w…
Only (μονον). One item was emphasized.
We should remember (μνημονευωμεν). Present active subjunctive, "tha…
19th Century
Anglican
The poor—that is, those at Jerusalem and in Judea. St. Paul had already been the means of bringing contributions from the wealthie…
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Baptist
One of the first things he did, when there was a famine in Judea, was to make a collection for the saints in other places, that he might aid the po…
Paul had already shown a concern for the poor at the time of the famine visit when he traveled to Jerusalem with Barnabas as a representative of th…
16th Century
Protestant
That we should remember the poor. It is evident that the fellow believers in Judea were suffering extreme poverty; otherwise, they would n…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Only they would that we should remember the poor Not in a spiritual sense, as some have thought, though these the ap…
Observe the apostle's faithfulness in giving a full account of the doctrine he had preached among the Gentiles and was still resolved to preach—tha…
13th Century
Catholic
Having shown that the Apostle did not depart from his opinion on any point in the conference mentioned above, he now shows that nothing was added t…
