ACC ~ Galatians 1 v22

WHAT SLANDER IS PAUL REBUTTING? CHRYSOSTOM: What is his aim in saying “I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea?” That you may understand he was so far from preaching circumcision to them that they did not even know him by sight. HOMILY ON GALATIANS 1.22-23.

THE BEARING OF HIS SHORT TIME IN JUDEA ON HIS APOSTLESHIP. JEROME: He discreetly returns to the main point, establishing that he had spent so short a time in Judea that he was unknown even by face to the believers. Hence he shows that he had no teachers—not Peter, not James, not John—but Christ, who had revealed his gospel to him. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 1.1.

THE VITALITY OF JEWISH CHURCHES APART FROM JERUSALEM. AUGUSTINE: It should be observed that Jews had believed in Christ not only in Jerusalem, nor were they so few that they had been absorbed into the Gentile churches, but they were so numerous that churches came into being from them. EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 9 [1B.1.20-24].

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