![]() The inference from the language is that there were a considerable number scattered through the province. The word "all" implies that a number were with him. ![]() His fellow-laborers, such as Timothy, Titus, Silas, Luke, etc., some of whom at least were with him at this time. The other apostles did not convert, choose, or appoint him, but Christ came from heaven to commission him.Īnd all the brethren which are with me. Hence Paul here begins by declaring that his apostleship is not from man, but directly from Christ. 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. These teachers sought to prepare a way for their doctrines by discrediting Paul. 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. ![]() This verse is the text of the first two chapters. Paul, an apostle, not of men, neither by man.
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