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  • From: "Liz Fried" <lizfried AT umich.edu>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: C-P: Gal 1:12
  • Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:00:14 -0400


> From: Jeffrey B. Gibson

>
> Liz Fried wrote:
>


>
> In any case, to bring this back to Paul, we need to be clear here
> -- as perhaps we
> have not been -- about what Paul is claiming about himself that
> is not derived. As I
> have read over the texts again, I see that it may NOT be that the
> idea/"doctrine) that
> qualifications for membership in the people of God is to be based
> on whether or not
> one exhibits the faithfulness that Jesus displayed (PISTIS
> CRISTOU), but whether his
> commission *to be an apostle* is derived from men (though the
> issue of whether or not
> he was *taught* the Gospel he preaches seems to be denied by Gal. 1:12).

Dear Jeffrey,
He is claiming both. In gal 1:1 he claims his apostleship is not from men.
>From this we can deduce that the powers that be, i.e., the Jerusalem church
did not send him, and perhaps didn't want him sent. No little love lost it
seems between them (1:8,9). He states here that he is going out on his own
authority.
In Gal 1:11,12 he states that his gospel is his own. By this I think he is
saying that it disagrees with that of the Jerusalem church. I think that is
the point of this statement. He is not saying, it seems to me, that he was
never influenced by anyone else. It seems to me these are polemical
statements. They are meant to set him apart from the Jerusalem church, and
to give himself some authority over that church in the eyes of the
Galatians. They are not statements about the source of his gospel. These are
simply an appeal to a higher authority. He is trying to go 'over their
heads' by an appeal to Jesus himself, and so gain credibility with the
Galatians.

My take on things.

Liz

>
Lisbeth S. Fried
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
New York University
51 Washington Sq. S.
New York, NY 10012
lqf9256 AT is3.nyu.edu
lizfried AT umich.edu





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