Commentary on Galatians Ephesians Philippians Colossians Thessalonians Timothy Titus and Philemon John Calvin
CHAPTER 1
divine. And indeed he calls them as witnesses of a matter not at all doubtful, so as to place beyond controversy what he is about to say.
His equals were those of his own age; for a comparison with older persons would have been unsuitable. When he speaks of the traditions of the fathers, he means, not those additions by which the law of God had been corrupted, but the law of God itself, in which he had been educated from his childhood, and which he had received through the hands of his parents and ancestors. Having been strongly attached to the customs of his fathers, it would have been no easy matter to tear him from them, had not the Lord drawn him by a miracle.
Galatians 1:15-24
Galatians 1:15-24
15. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
15. At postquam placuit Deo, qui me segregaverat ab utero matris meae, et vocavit per gratiam suam,
16. To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
16. Revelare Filium suum mihi, ut praedicarem ipsnm inter Gentes, continuo non contuli cum carne et sanguine;
17. Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
17. Neque redii Hierosolymam, ad eos qui ante me fuerunt Apestoli; sed abii in Arabiam, ac denuo reversus sum Damascum.
18. Then, after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
18. Deinde post annos tres redii Hierosolymam, ut viderein Petrum; et mansi apud illum dies quindecim.
19. But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother. 19. Alium antem ex Apostolis non vidi quenquam, nisi Iacobum fratrem Domini.
20. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not. 20. Porro quae scribo vobis, ecce coram Deo, non mentier. 21. Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; 21. Deinde vent in regiones Syriae ac Ciliciae. 22. And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ:
22. Eram autem facie ignotus Ecclesiis Iudaeae, qute erant in Christo. 23. But they had heard only, that he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.
23. Sed tantum hic rumor apud illos erat; Qui persequebatur nos aliquando, nunc praedicat fidem quam quondam expugnabat.
24. And they glorified God in me.