Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

Hello,

While I see your point, I think there is a clear "break" in 3:1 where 
Paul again addresses the Galatians directly.  It seems to me that in 
2:14-21 Paul is reciting an incident (relating his sermon to Peter) as 
an illustration of the fact that he won't back down- even in the face of 
power and authority.  Having made the point by relating his denunciation 
of Peter, he refocuses attention on his primary audience, the crazy, 
hacking Galatians.

Mark Goodacre wrote:

> Agreed.  Also, the question presupposes that Paul knew where he was
> talking about the Antioch incident and where he was talking to /
> applying it to the Galatians.  But Paul's point in telling that story
> is to relate it directly to the Galatians' situation, to make that
> incident and Paul's rebuke "present" in the hearing of the Galatians.
> So does Paul actually even think in terms of where he is quoting
> himself and where he is not?  Rather, if one thinks in terms of the
> rhetoric of the letter, he is beginning with the incident, making
> present his response to Peter, and continuing to make it present and
> relevant in the hearing of the Galatians, in a speech to the Galatians
> that continues all the way to the end of the chapter, and beyond.
>
> Mark

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