References:
- Quick Review
- The churches of Galatia to whom Paul was writing are the subject of Luke’s telling of Acts 13 & 14
- Antioch of Pisidia - near modern day Yalvaç, Turkey
- Iconium & Lystra - near Konya, Turkey
- Derbe - near Karaman, Turkey
- Paul starts the letter with both barrels blazing
- I’m shocked! You are abandoning the true Gospel
- for a twisted one, a false Gospel
- Curses! Anathema!
- 1:11-24 - The Gospel is God’s, not ours to adapt to our liking
- The Gospel’s source and Paul’s testimony - vss 11-16a
- Not human - οὐκ ἔστιν κατὰ ἄνθρωπον
- not | is | according to, after, by | man
- Revelation - ἀποκάλυψις (ap-ok-al'-oop-sis)
- laying bare, making naked
- a disclosure of truth, instruction
- concerning things before unknown
- used of events by which things or states or persons hitherto withdrawn from view are made visible to all
- manifestation, appearance
- Former Saul - vss 13-14
- See Acts 7:57-8:1
- See Acts 26:9-11
- Redeemed and restored Paul - vss 15-16a
- See Eph 1:3-14
- Compare 1:Pet 1:18-20
- Paul’s early years before his 1st missionary journey
- He was in no hurry for affirmation from others - vss 16b-17
- Arabia? What scholars do with silence.
- Did Paul travel as far as the Sinai Penninsula
- Mt Sinai? (see 4:25)
- Moses, Elijah and now maybe Paul?
- Damascus? - remember Acts 9:19b-30
- Jerusalem and beyond - vss 18-24
