Corpus-Paul

[Richard Fellows <rfellows AT shaw.ca>]

Warm greetings to everyone.

The Galatians were thinking that Paul was an envoy of the Jerusalem  
church leaders. Now, envoys in the ancient world were expected to  
represent those who sent them. The almost universal assumption is that  
the rumor in Galatia was that Paul was a BAD envoy in that he had not  
followed the Law-affirming stance of the Jerusalem church leaders. I  
suggest the opposite: the rumor in Galatia was that Paul had been a  
GOOD envoy in that he had loyally repeated the Law-free gospel that  
the Jerusalem church leaders had given him, and had done so without  
believing it. I argue the case on my blog here:

http://paulandco-workers.blogspot.com/

Thanks in advance for your consideration of this hypothesis.

Richard Fellows
Vancouver.