But since it is a dispute about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of such things.”
Gallio speaks of God's law with contempt, as though the Jewish faith were nothing but empty words and pointless questions. The Jews were certainly prone to such vain disputes, yet Gallio deserves no excuse for mocking the holy law of God alongside their folly. When the worship of God is at stake, the quarrel is not about words at all, but the most serious matter there is.
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See how the Jews moved in unity against Paul, rushing him violently before Gallio without time to prepare. But their charge rings hollow: they accuse him of persuading men to worship God contrary to law, as if the remedy for false doctrine is force. The work of Christ goes forward at Corinth despite their insurrection, and no great harm comes of it.
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Commenting on Acts 18:12-17
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 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.