Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.
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Gill's Exposition
Only they would that we should remember the poor,.... Not in a spiritual sense, as some have thought, though these the apostle was greatly mindful of; but properly and literally the poor as to the…
Barnes' Notes
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 would be necessary to make this an express stipulation in…
Adam Clarke
Only they would that we should remember the poor - They saw plainly that God had as expressly called Barnabas and me to go to the Gentiles as he had called them to preach to the Jews; and they did not…
It should seem, by the account Paul gives of himself in this chapter, that, from the very first preaching and planting of Christianity, there was a difference of apprehension between those Christians…
Cambridge Bible
One reservation was made which was in accordance with my own earnest desire.
the poor In the department of almsgiving no distinction was to be made. On two recorded occasions, St Paul conveyed alms…
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