Gal 2:4-7

Moon-Ryul Jung moon at sogang.ac.kr
Thu Apr 25 17:56:47 EDT 2002


[Moon]
> I thought that Acts 15:6-21 describes a public meeting. In verse 15:12, it
> says:
> ESIGHSEN DE PAN TO PLHQOS, which RSV renders as "the whole assembly kept
> silent". Doesn't the presence of "the whole assembly" indicate that it
> was a public meeting? Do you take PAN TO PLHQOS to refer to all the
> members of the private discussion?

[Iver]
I always interpret individual words on the background of their context.
15:6
introduces the setting of a meeting with the apostles and elders. There is
no change in setting indicated in 5:12, so the whole group (TO PLHQOS)
must
refer to the group of apostles (at least 12 I assume, missing James,
brother
of John, but including James, brother of Jesus) plus the group of elders
(unknown number). It was not a public meeting, but all the leaders
gathered
together.

[Moon]
I have two questions.

(1) Shouldn't a meeting with the whole group of apostles and elders be
regarded as a public meeting?
(2) In Gal 2, Paul and Barnabas are described to have met only three
leading apostles, which should be regarded as a private meeting. Is
there any way to reconcile it with TO PLHQOS in Acts 15?

Moon
Moon R. Jung
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea



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