Galatians 2:9 (WEB)
and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
Fathers and councils · 17
Eusebius of Caesarea
“Barnabas, indeed, is said to have been one of them, of whom the Acts of the apostles makes mention in various places, and especially Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 1, 9, and 13.
Read the whole comment““James, the brother of the Lord, succeeded to the government of the Church in conjunction with the apostles.” — editor's note: μετὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων, “with the apostles”; as Rufinus rightly translates, cum apostolis. Jerome, on the contrary, reads post apostolos, “after the apostles,” as…
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Augustine of Hippo
“So the Apostle Paul concerning his fellow-Apostles saith, “who seemed to be pillars.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 9.
Read the whole comment“…Holy Ghost, had so distributed among them the provinces of evangelizing, that Paul and Barnabas should go unto the Gentiles, and they unto the Circumcision.” — editor's note: Acts xiii. 2; Gal. ii. 9
Read the whole comment“Whence also it came about that he compared the Gospel with them, lest by any means he had run, or should run, in vain; and they gave him their right hand because in him also they found, although not given him by them, their own word which they were already preaching, and in which they were now established.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 2, 9.
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John Chrysostom
“Whence it is clear in this case, that even the disciples were weak; but not all; for the pillarswere not present there.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 9.
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Jerome
“He is training a church still untaught in Christ, and making provision for people of all stations but especially for the poor, the charge of whom had been committed to himself and Barnabas.” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“And in the same Epistle, “And when they perceived the grace that was given unto me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars,” etc. And that you may not suppose this…” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 9.
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“To heal and stay this disease needs a Peter or Paul, those great disciples of Christ, who in addition to guidance in word and deed, received their grace, and became all things to all men, that they might gain all.” — editor's note: Their grace, τὸ χάρισμα. Elias takes this of the power to heal diseases. Tillemont of miracles in general. Perhaps better of the special position as Apostles…
Read the whole comment“You have heard the words of Paul, “that we might go the Gentiles, and they to the Circumcision.”” — editor's note: Galat. ii. 9.
Read the whole comment“And I greet thee, to a small extent with my tongue, but very heartily with the movements of my affections.” — editor's note: Galat. ii. 9.
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Leo the Great
““While we have time therefore,” as the Apostle says, “let us do that which is good to all men, and especially to them that are of the household of faith.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 10 and 9.
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Tertullian
“…gave him their right hands of fellowship, before that he entered on the office of preaching to the Gentiles, according to their arrangement with him.” — editor's note: Ex censu eorum: see Gal. ii. 9, 10.
Read the whole comment“They accordingly even gave him “the right hand of fellowship,” as a sign of their agreement with him, and arranged amongst themselves a distribution of office, not a diversity of gospel, so that they should severally…” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 9.
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John Cassian
“A matter which he testifies that he attended to most carefully, saying, “which also I was anxious of myself to do.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 9, 10.
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Clement of Alexandria
“But he teaches that knowledge (gnosis), which is the perfection of faith, goes beyond catechetical instruction, in accordance with the magnitude of the Lord’s teaching and the rule of the Church.” — editor's note: [Canon-law referred to as already recognised. And see 2 Cor. x. 13–15 (Greek), as to a certain ecclesiastical rule or canon observed by the apostles. It may…
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Cyprian of Carthage
“In the Epistle of Peter to them of Pontus: “Nor let any of you suffer as a thief, or a murderer, or as an evil-doer, or as a minder of other people’s business, but as a Christian.”” — editor's note: [Gr. ὡς ἀλλοτριοεπίσκοπος; a strange expression. This is St. Paul’s canon (Greek) of jurisdiction, which he expounds, 2 Cor. x. 13, 14. Comp. Gal. ii. 9.…
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Cross-references · 43
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 10.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in Orations Oration 15.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in Church History II.23.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in The Institutes VII.17.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38 and 1 other place.
Cited together in Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews III.38 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies VI.18.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 22.
Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 22.