John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
Which when they had read,.... That is, when the brethren of the church at Antioch had read the letter delivered to them; for not Paul and Barnabas, or Judas and Silas, who were sent with it, read it, but the brethren to whom it was sent, as was proper. They rejoiced for the consolation, or "exhortation", as the word may be rendered, which was given them in the letter, to abstain from the above...