ACC ~ Galatians 1 v10a

ON NOT DESPISING HUMAN OPINIONS. JEROME: Let us not suppose that the apostle is teaching us by his example to despise the judgments of others … but if it can happen that we can please God and others equally, let us also please others. … The word now is inserted specially here, to show that people are to be pleased or displeased according to the circumstances, so that he who is now displeasing for the sake of gospel truth was at one time pleasing for the sake of people’s salvation. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 1.1.10.

HOW WE ARE BEST PLEASED THROUGH THE TRUTH. AUGUSTINE: No one persuades God, for all things are manifest to him. But a person does well in wishing to persuade others when it is not himself that he wishes them to like but the truth that he persuades them of. … When one pleases others on account of truth, it is not the proclaimer himself but the truth that pleases. … Thus the sense is, “Do I then persuade men or God? And since it is men that I persuade, do I seek to please them? If I still sought to please men, I should not be Christ’s servant. For he bids his servants to learn from him to be meek and lowly of heart, which is utterly impossible for one who seeks to please men on his own account, for his own private and special glory.” … Both then can be rightly said: “I please” and “I do not please.” EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 5 [1B.1.10].

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