ACC ~ Galatians 1 v13

WHY HE REMINDS THEM OF HIS OWN STORY. MARIUS VICTORINUS: The point of telling this about himself is to show that he did not learn from a man or through man but from God and Jesus Christ. The aim of this is to prevent the Galatians from entertaining another opinion or supposing that anything needs to be added to the gospel. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 1.1.13-14.

WHETHER THE LAW ITSELF IS TO BLAME FOR LEGALISTIC SERVITUDE. AUGUSTINE: If therefore he showed prowess in Judaism by persecuting and wasting God’s church, it is obvious that Judaism is contrary to the church of God, not through that spiritual law which the Jews had received but through their carnal habit of servitude. And if Paul as a zealot—that is, an imitator of late Judaic traditions—persecuted the church of God, his paternal traditions are contrary to God’s church, but the blame does not belong to the law itself. For the law is spiritual and does not allow itself to be interpreted carnally. That is the fault of those who understand carnally the things that they have re-ceived and who also have handed down many things of their own, undermining, as the Lord said, the command of God through their traditions. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 7 [1B.1.13-14].

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