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Same God, Same Power
Commentators agree that Paul's core argument is that his apostleship is validated by the same divine power that validated Peter's. The same God who produced miracles and conversions through Peter for the Jews was clearly producing the same results through Paul for the Gentiles. This observable, divine power was the ultimate proof of his calling, independent of human approval.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 2:8
18th Century
Theologian
For he that wrought effectually in Peter, etc. Or by the means or agency of Peter. The argument here is, that the same effects had been pr…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 2:8
He that wrought for Peter unto the apostleship of the circumcision (ο γαρ ενεργησας Πετρω εις αποστολην της περιτομης). Paul here …
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 2:8
19th Century
Bishop
He that wrought effectually in Peter . . . the same was mighty in me.—This is an instance of that capriciousness in our t…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 2:6–10
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 2:8
The phrase “they saw” implies a change of mind by the Twelve as a result of Paul and Barnabas’s having reported on all that God had done through th…
John Calvin
On Galatians 2:8
16th Century
Theologian
He that wrought effectually. That the province which had been assigned to him was truly his own is proven by the exertion of divine power …
John Gill
On Galatians 2:8
17th Century
Pastor
For he that wrought effectually in Peter
The Syriac version renders it, "he who exhorted Peter to"; the Arabic versi…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 2:1–10
17th Century
Minister
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���t…