For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting NOTHING from the Gentiles

7 For they have gone out for the sake of the name, accepting nothing from the Gentiles.

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8 Therefore we ought to support people like these, that we may be fellow workers for the truth.

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taking nothing of the Gentiles] Hence the necessity for men like Gaius to help. These missionaries declined to ‘spoil the Egyptians’ by taking from the heathen, and therefore would be in great difficulties if Christians did not come forward with assistance. We are not to understand that the Gentiles offered help which these brethren refused, but that the brethren never asked them for help. ‘The Gentiles’ (οἱ ἐθνικοί) cannot well mean Gentile converts.

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