Corpus-Paul

[Steve Black <sblack AT axionet.com>]

Loren wrote
> That Paul went to Jerusalem "in order to be sure that
> he wasn't running in vain" (Gal 2:2) should put to
> rest notions that he didn't care what the pillars
> thought about the matter. Gal 2:6 -- "From those who
> were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they
> actualy were makes no difference to me; God shows no
> partiality") -- is, I believe, part of the face-saving
> rhetoric which runs through Gal 2:1-10.

You make a good point here, Loren.

It seems that perhaps Paul was both arrogant and insecure. This 
twinning of traits is not as strange as may at first appear, and in 
fact might be connected.


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Steve Black
Vancouver School of Theology
Vancouver, BC

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