The Proclamation to the Gentiles

Regarding the proclamation to the nations, having received it, some from the circumcised community, departing, were persuading the nations to Judaize; and first concerning this it appears that a search has happened in Antioch, that the apostles wrote not to be under the law, but to abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; for so it seemed to the Holy Spirit. And this disease prevailed among the Galatians, in agreement with those having willed to Judaize. And they were persuaded by those perverting the truth, saying, that the rest of the apostles do not forbid those willing to keep the law.

Galatians 1:4 shows that neither Moses died for the sake of the world, nor any other of the prophets. Therefore one must not be defeated by the one who did not save, but by the one who died for us. Galatians 1:6–7 He says, 'Into a different gospel, which is not another gospel'; for your gospel and that of the apostles is willed to be outside of you by the law. Galatians 1:8–10 'Let him be an angel, why then also we?; when we were proclaiming, by the power of the Holy Spirit we proclaimed'; and the Holy Spirit does not change his mind. If therefore we say other things, we have abandoned the things of the Spirit. Let the preacher be an anathema, then, setting aside the proclamation. From what you received. 'I did not proclaim, he says, but you did not receive, but also I proclaimed, and you received.' 'Neither do I repent having proclaimed, and you have observed what you received.' 'For now am I persuading men or God?; or am I seeking to please men?; if I were still pleasing men, I would not have been a slave of Christ.'

Intending to remind them of his own gospel, he anticipates the objection so that they may not think that he heals by submitting; for he strikes by rebuking. Having said 'if still', he showed that he once pleased men. What, indeed, pleased him? From whom the faithful ones to Damascus received letters to afflict. If therefore, he says, he were still pleasing the Jews, he would not have believed in Christ. Galatians 1:13 'What need is there of a turning in Judaism, but that he might show that he does not serve beforehand but in truth'; for not having hated the law did he run away from grace—for he was persecuting it—but having found the perfect, he departed from the law. Now he shows that he has more than that concerning Peter; for those did not zeal for the sake of Judaism, disobeying Christianity, as I do. Do not therefore think that having hated the law I came into grace—for they were persecuting the law—but I found the perfect, and I will not abolish the law by the perfect grace. Galatians 1:16 He says this not slandering the apostles, but that I did not run in step with fleshly flesh. Galatians 2:16 'For if no one is justified from works, bearing the toil, but from faith, where the benefit of ease and the benefit of righteousness is great, how does he say it is not necessary having made the law sufficient for grace?;' he says not to be justified from works of the law, but not from commandments; for the commandment justifies the one obeying, but the work was the difficult thing. Galatians 2:18 The word is against Peter: 'You destroyed those things by doctrine which were sent from you to the...'