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9 As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you athan what you have received, let him be accursed.  
10 For ado I now bpersuade men, or God? Or cdo I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.  

Call to Apostleship

11 aBut I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man.  
12 For aI neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came bthrough the revelation of Jesus Christ.  
13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how aI persecuted the church of God beyond measure and btried to destroy it.  
14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, abeing more exceedingly zealous bfor the traditions of my fathers.  
15 But when it pleased God, awho separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace,  
16 ato reveal His Son in me, that bI might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with cflesh and blood,  
17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.

Contacts at Jerusalem

18 Then after three years aI went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and remained with him fifteen days.  
19 But aI saw none of the other apostles except bJames, the Lord’s brother.  
20 (Now concerning the things which I write to you, indeed, before God, I do not lie.)
21 aAfterward I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia.  
22 And I was unknown by face to the churches of Judea which awere in Christ.  
23 But they were ahearing only, “He who formerly bpersecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy.”  
24 And they aglorified God in me. 
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Galatians 1:11

But I certify you - I make known to you; or, I declare to you; see I Corinthians 15:1. Doubtless this had been known to them before, but he now assures them of it, and goes into an extended illustration to show them that he had not received his authority from man to preach the gospel To state and Proverbs this is the main design of this chapter.

Is not after man - The Greek text: "Not according to man" ; see Galatians 1:1. That is, he was not appointed by man, nor did he have any human instructor to make known to him what the gospel was. He had neither received it from man, nor had it been debased or adulterated by any human admixtures. He had received it directly from the Lord Jesus.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Galatians 1:11:

Acts 13:3
1 Corinthians 1:1
Galatians 6:17
1 Timothy 1:1
1 Timothy 2:7
Titus 1:3

 

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