Was unknown [η μ η ν α γ ν ο ο υ μ ε ν ο ς]. Better, was still unknown, the imperfect denoting that he remained unknown during his stay in Syria and Cilicia.
Of Judaea. The province, as distinguished from Jerusalem, where he must have been known as the persecutor of the church. See Acts 9:1; Acts 9:2.
Which were in Christ. See on 1 Thessalonians 2:14.
Verse 22. _AND WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE_] I was not personally acquainted with any of the Churches of Judea; I was converted in another place, and had not preached the Gospel in any Christian congregation...
AND WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE ... - Paul had visited Jerusalem only, and he had formed no acquaintance with any of the churches in the other parts of Judea. He regarded himself at the first as called to pre...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE TESTIMONY OF PAUL CONCERNING HIS APOSTOLIC AUTHORITY AND THE GOSPEL CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The Introduction. (Galatians 1:1)_ 2. The Rebuke. (Galatians 1:6) 3. Paul's Gospe...
Not till he had been three years a Christian and a Christian preacher did he come in contact with the earlier apostles; and then but slightly. He visited Cephas at Jerusalem, spending a fortnight with...
THE TRUMPET CALL OF THE GOSPEL (Galatians 1:1-5)...
Then, three years after that, I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and I stayed with him a fortnight. I saw no other apostle except James, the Lord's brother. As for what I am writing to you--befor...
WAS UNKNOWN. continued unknown Compare 2 Corinthians 6:9....
_and was unknown_ rather, AND I CONTINUED UNKNOWN. So far from his having learned the truths which he taught from the other Apostles, the Churches of Judæa, to which they principally ministered at thi...
ἬΜΗΝ ΔῈ� … ΜΌΝΟΝ ΔῈ�. As this is an original Greek part of the N.T., not a translation from Hebrew or Aramaic, Dr Moulton is inclined to give this periphrastic tense its full classical emphasis, “I wa...
_A short visit to Jerusalem and then a long absence. Yet the churches of Judaea, though they knew me not by sight, recognized me and my work_ (Galatians 1:18) Then three years from my conversion I did...
10–2:21. ST PAUL’S DEFENCE OF HIMSELF 10–12. _My one object is to please God, and to serve Christ, who revealed to me the Gospel_ (Galatians 1:10) I say “now,” for my words show clearly that I care n...
ΉΜΗΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΆΓΝΟΟΎΜΕΝΟΣ _praes. pass. part. от_ ΆΓΝΟΈΩ (G50) быть в неведении, не знать; _pass._ быть неизвестным. _Praes._ подчеркивает длительность состояния незнан...
WHICH WERE IN CHRIST:— That is, "believing in Christ." See Romans 16:7. What he takes such particular notice of here, does not tend to the proving that he was a true Apostle; but serves very well to s...
c) His visit to Jerusalem was not long enough for instruction in the gospel. Galatians 1:18-24 TEXT 1:18-24 (18) Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas, and tarried with him f...
_VERSE 22, 23, 24. AND WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE UNTO THE CHURCHES OF JUDAEA WHICH WERE IN CHRIST: BUT THEY HAD HEARD ONLY, THAT HE WHICH PERSECUTED US IN TIMES PAST NOW PREACHETH THE FAITH WHICH ONCE HE DE...
And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: So far was I from being a disciple of the apostles, that I was even unknown by face in the churches of Judea (except Jerusa...
1:22 personally (a-5) Lit. 'by face.'...
UNKNOWN] though he had preached in and about Jerusalem (Acts 9:28), since his labours there had been among the Greek-speaking Jews. THE CHURCHES.. WHICH WERE IN CHRIST] not merely 'the Christian Chur...
ST. PAUL MAINTAINS THE VALIDITY OF HIS APOSTLESHIP AND THE TRUTH OF HIS GOSPEL 1-5. The Apostle sends greetings from himself and the brethren with him to the Churches of Galatia, reminding them at th...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ ABOUT PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS THE WRITER Paul wrote this letter. His name used to be Saul. He was called Saul until Acts 13:9, when he was...
Many people in Jerusalem had known Paul before he was a Christian. So, Paul went to two large regions where the Christians did not know him. Paul moved away from the *apostles and he worked by himself...
WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE. — The Greek is a shade stronger: _I continued unknown._ If in Jerusalem itself the Apostle had not had time to receive instruction from any one, still less was this the case with...
(18-24) Nor did that consultation with the elder Apostles, which had hitherto been impossible, take place when, at last, after the lapse of three years, the Apostle did go up to Jerusalem. He saw inde...
CHAPTER 6 PAUL AND THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH. Galatians 1:18 FOR the first two years of his Christian life, Paul held no intercourse whatever with the Church at Jerusalem and its chiefs. His relation wit...
REPUDIATION OF CORRUPT MOTIVES. EVIDENCE FROM PAUL'S PERSONAL HISTORY THAT HIS CONVERSION WAS DUE TO GOD, AND THAT HE WAS TAUGHT THE GOSPEL BY GOD INDEPENDENTLY OF THE TWELVE AND OF JERUSALEM....
About ten years of the life of Paul, between his flight from Jerusalem to Tarsus and his return to Jerusalem for the Apostolic Council, are here passed over. They were spent, partly in and around Tars...
ἤμην δὲ ἀγν. The correct translation is not _I was unknown_ (as our versions render it), but _I was becoming unknown_. At the beginning of this period he was a familiar figure in Jerusalem, but in the...
FROM CHRIST, NOT FROM MEN Galatians 1:18 Paul's first visit to Peter must have been of absorbing interest. Doubtless the two traversed together the holy scenes of the Lord's ministry, and Peter told...
In the beginning of most of his epistles Paul definitely declares his apostleship. In this instance, in a parenthesis, he defends that declaration more emphatically than in any other introduction. The...
(13) For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: (14) And profited in the Jews' religion above many...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
22._And was unknown by face_. This appears to be added for the sake of shewing more strongly the wickedness and malignity of his slanderers. If the churches of Judea who _had only heard _respecting hi...
The epistle to the Galatians sets before us the great source of the afflictions and conflicts of the apostle in the regions where he had preached the glad tidings; that which was at the same time the...
AND WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE,.... Or "in person". This is said to prevent what might be objected, that though the apostle had not received the Gospel he preached from any of the apostles at Jerusalem; yet...
And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ: Ver. 22. _And was unknown_] So far was Paul from learning aught of them....
_Now the things which I write unto you_ With respect to all these circumstances of them; _I lie not_ As I affirm before God, who searcheth the heart, and from whom nothing is hid. _Afterward_ Departin...
Paul's visit to Jerusalem:...
AND WAS UNKNOWN BY FACE UNTO THE CHURCHES OF JUDEA WHICH WERE IN CHRIST;...
INTRODUCTION: PAUL'S CREDENTIALS (vs.1-5) Paul writes as an apostle, a sent-one entrusted by God to carry an authoritative message to which Christians must fully bow. "Not from men" (v.1). No human i...
Paul went where he was not personally known. Fame is not needed to preach the Gospel....
15-24 St. Paul was wonderfully brought to the knowledge and faith of Christ. All who are savingly converted, are called by the grace of God; their conversion is wrought by his power and grace working...
To be IN CHRIST, signifieth: 1. Their being Christians indeed; they having received Christ by a true and lively faith, and given themselves to the obedience of his precepts. In this sense the apostle...
And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ:...
Galatians 1:22 And G1161 was G2252 (G5713) unknown G50 (G5746) face G4383 churches G1577 Judea G2449 which...
‘Then I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and I was still unknown by face to the churches of Judea which were in Christ, but they only heard say, ‘He who once persecuted us now preaches the...
_Apostolical Call and Authority of Paul._ Paul now enters upon his apology. He defends first his independent apostolical dignity (Galatians 1:11 to Galatians 2:11). and proves that he was called direc...
Galatians 1:22. AND WAS STILL UNKNOWN BY FACE, by sight, personally. JUDÆA is here the district without the capital, as Italy is often distinguished from Rome (Hebrews 13:24). The congregation of Jer...
AND I WAS STILL UNKNOWN (ημην δε αγνουμενος). Periphrastic imperfect passive of αγνοεω, not to know.BY FACE (τω προσωπω). Associative instrumental case.OF JUDEA (της Ιουδαιας). As distinct from...
Galatians 1:11. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel that was preached of me is not after man. For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but the revelation of Jesus Christ. Fo...
Galatians 1:1. _Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)_ Paul begins this Epistle by stating his commission as an apostl...
CONTENTS: The Gospel Paul preached, a revelation not tradition. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Paul, Peter, James. CONCLUSION: The Gospel declared by the apostles was by revelation of Jesus Christ. It is...
Galatians 1:1. _Paul an apostle, not of men, neither by man._ Paul was not a member of the church of the firstborn, suckled with her breasts, and edified by her ministry. Christ had specially appeared...
THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. In _standard English,_ both _Christian church_ and _church of Christ_ mean the church which Jesus built (Matthew 16:18 and notes). Paul means he was personally unknown to the m...
_Which were in Christ._ Relation of Churches to Christ: I. They are founded on Christ (Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 1:2). II. They are built by Christ (Ephesians 4:16). III. Th
SAINT PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS CHAPTER 1 CONTENTS The Galatians were Gentiles who emigrated from Gaul into Greece, and so were called Gallo-Greeks. Suidas thinks that these Gauls were Sennon...
_And was unknown by face._ The Christians in Judæa had not seen my face. He says this, says Chrysostom, to prove that he had not taught in Judæa, nor preached circumcision and the Old Law, as the Juda...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 1:24. THEY GLORIFIED GOD IN ME.—He does not say, adds Chrysostom, they marvelled at me, they praised me, they were struck with admiration of me, but he attr...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 1:1 _The_ _introductory greeting. _The style of this greeting, compared with those found in St. Paul's other Epistles, gives indications of his having addressed himself to the co...
Galatia was not a city. It was a territory. It encompassed an area that is now in Turkey. There were several churches founded by Paul in Galatia. And following Paul's evangelistic efforts through the...
1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Thessalonians 1:1; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 2 Thessalonians 1:1;...
TURNING FROM GRACE Galatians 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Our study of today carries us into some very vital relationships relative to salvation. We are all willing to grant that works hold a vital place...