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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Galatians 1:1
Paul's Apostleship of God, Not of Men
SUMMARY OF GALATIANS 1: Greetings. Paul's Wonder That the Galatians Had
Swerved from the Gospel. They Had Received. Anathemas on Those Who
Preach Another Gospel. The Gospel Communicated to Paul by Christ
Himself. Paul's Early Life. A Persecutor. Christ Revealed. Goes Not
Then to Jerusalem. After Three Years, Abode with Peter Fifteen Days.
Then Preached in Cilicia.
Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man. This verse is the text
of the first two chapters. In the Introduction I have pointed out that
this Epistle was written on account of the disturbance made among the
churches of Galatia by false teachers. These teachers sought to prepare
a way for their doctrines by discrediting Paul. If they admitted that
he was an apostle at all, they claimed that he was inferior to Peter
and the Twelve; that he had received his gospel from them, and hence
all must look to Jerusalem for the true gospel. Hence Paul here begins
by declaring that his apostleship is not from man,
but by Jesus Christ, directly from Christ. The other apostles did
not convert, choose, or appoint him, but Christ came from heaven to
commission him.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 9:17
Galatians 1:1
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