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- Acts
- Chapter 18
- Verse 15
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
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Gill's Exposition
And he drave them from the judgment seat. He would not hear, and try the cause; but dismissed them with threatening them, if ever they brought an affair of that kind to him any more.
And he drave…
Barnes' Notes
Of words - A dispute about words, for such he would regard all their controversies about religion to be. And names - Probably he had heard something of the nature of the controversy, and understood it…
Adam Clarke
But if it be a question of words - Περι λογου, Concerning doctrine and names - whether the person called Jesus be the person you call the Messiah. And of your law - any particular nicety, concerning…
We have here an account of some disturbance given to Paul and his friends at Corinth, but no great harm done, nor much hindrance given to the work of Christ there.
I. Paul is accused by the Jews…
Cambridge Bible
But if they are questions about words and names The oldest authorities give the plural "questions," and there would no doubt have been many points brought forward from St Paul's teaching to which the…
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