John of Damascus, on Gal 2:10

“Only that we should be mindful of the poor: which same thing also I was careful to do.”

“The circumstances, he says, were such, that they were to preach to the Jews and we, to the nations. But the care for the poor became a matter common to both of them. These poor were those from the Jews who believed in Christ and who had been deprived of their own homes by the Jews; They were those to whom he wrote, For you accepted joyfully the seizure of your property (Hebr. 10:34).”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.