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For you have heard of my way of living in time past in the Jews` religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it.
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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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18th Century
Presbyterian
For you have heard of my conversation. My conduct, my mode of life, my deportment.
Probably Paul had himself made them acquainted w…
My manner of life (την εμην αναστροφην). Late word in this sense from Polybius on from αναστρεφομα. In the older writers it meant …
19th Century
Anglican
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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Baptist
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 …
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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 …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For you have heard of my conversation in time past His manner and course of life, in his state of unregeneracy, how …
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Apostle rebuked the Galatians for their fickleness in so quickly setting aside the gospel's teaching; now he shows the dignity of t…
