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A Testimony with a Purpose
Scholars unanimously agree that Paul recounts his violent past for a specific reason: to prove his gospel came directly from God. His history as a zealous persecutor who tried to 'destroy' the church shows that his conversion and message could not have originated from his education or any human influence. His past was the complete opposite of the faith he now preached, making his transformation powerful evidence of divine revelation.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 1:13
18th Century
Theologian
For you have heard of my conversation. My conduct, my mode of life, my deportment.
Probably Paul had himself made them acquainted w…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 1:13
My manner of life (την εμην αναστροφην). Late word in this sense from Polybius on from αναστρεφομα. In the older writers it meant …
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 1:13
19th Century
Bishop
You have heard.—Rather, you heard. It was indeed notorious; but the Apostle may be referring to the fact that he himself …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 1:11–17
19th Century
Preacher
Paul was intensely desirous that the Galatian Christians should understand that he was no mere repeater of other men's doctrines, but that what he …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 1:13
The first part of this cumulative argument concerns Paul’s former life in Judaism, before his conversion to Christianity. At this point, so far was…
John Calvin
On Galatians 1:13
16th Century
Theologian
For you have heard of my conversation. The whole of this narrative was added as a part of his argument. He relates that, during his whole …
John Gill
On Galatians 1:13
17th Century
Pastor
For you have heard of my conversation in time past
His manner and course of life, in his state of unregeneracy, how …
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 1:10–14
17th Century
Minister
In preaching the gospel, the apostle sought to bring persons to the obedience, not of men, but of God. But Paul would not attempt to alter the doct…