Quotes & Notes on:
Galatians 1:11
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John Wesley's Notes:
But I certify you, brethren-He does not till now give them
even this appellation.
That the gospel which was preached by me among you is not according to
man-Not from man, not by man, not suited to the taste of man.
- Treasury of Scripture Knowledge:
* that. Ga 1:1; 1Co 2:9; 11:23; 15:1-3; Eph 3:3-8
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Adam Clarke's Commentary:
But I certify you, brethren, &c.] I wish you fully to comprehend that
the Gospel which I preached to you is not after man; there is not a
spark of human invention in it, nor the slightest touch of human
cunning.
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Family Bible Notes:
Not after man; not of human, but divine origin.
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1599 Geneva Bible Notes:
A second argument to prove that his doctrine is heavenly, because he
had it from heaven, from Jesus Christ himself, without any man's help,
in which he excels those whom Christ taught here on earth after the
manner of men.
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People's New Testament Commentary:
It is not preached to please man, nor is it of human origin
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Robertson's Word Pictures:
Which was preached (to euaggelisthen). Play on the word
euaggelion by first aorist passive participle of euaggelizô, "the gospel
which was gospelized by me." It is not after man (ouk estin kata
anthrôpon). Not after a human standard and so he does not try to conform
to the human ideal. Paul alone (1Co 3:3; 9:8; 15:32; Ro 3:15) in the N.T.
uses this old and common idiom.
Albert Barnes' Commentary:
But I certify you. I make known to you; or, I declare to you. See
1Co 15:1. Doubtless this had been known to them before, but he now
assures them of it, and goes into an extended illustration to show them
that he had not received his authority from man to preach the gospel. To
state and prove this is the main design of this chapter.
Is not after man. Greek, not according to man. See Ga 1:1. That is, he
was not appointed by man, nor had he any human instructor to make known
to him what the gospel was. He had neither received it from man, nor had
it been debased or adulterated by any human admixtures. He had received
it directly from the Lord Jesus.
{*} "certify" "declare to"
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Jamieson-Faussett Brown:
certify--I made known to you as to the Gospel which was preached by me,
that it is not after man, that is, not of, by, or from man (Ga 1:1,12).
It is not according to man; not influenced by mere human considerations,
as it would be, if it were of human origin.
brethren--He not till now calls them so.
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Spurgeon Commentary:
He was no retailer of other men's stuffs: he preached what he had been
taught of the Holy Ghost in his own soul. Lord, send us more such
ministries.
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William Burkitt's Notes:
The apostle here, as he did before, Ga 1:1,2, asserts the divinity of
the doctrine of the gospel which he had preached to them; and assures
them likewise of his own lawful call to be an apostle, which was
questioned by his adversaries, who affirmed, that he had received his
doctrine only from others at the second-hand. To satisfy them in the
divinity of his doctrine, he tells them, it was not after man; that is,
it was not human, but divine; nothing belonging to man, but all from God
in it: And as for his authority to preach it, he assures them, he had a
revelation and commission from Jesus Christ so to do; he learned not his
doctrine from any human teacher, nor undertook to preach it by any human
authority, but from Christ's immediate revelation.
Learn hence, it is a singular satisfaction to the ministers of Christ,
and that which gives them boldness before their false accusers, when
they can give good proof of their regular call to the work of the
ministry, and of the divinity of the doctrine dispensed by them. Thus
did St. Paul here: the gospel, says he, which I preach to you, and the
mission I had so to preach it, was not after man, nor from man, nor by
man, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Where note, from Christ's being so often opposed to man in these verses,
and in the first verse, that he is not mere man, but God as well as man:
why else doth the apostle oppose Christ to man so often as he doth here?
Not of man, neither by man, nor after man, but by the revelation of
Jesus Christ, who is God.
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary:
(No comment on this verse).
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole
Bible:
(No comment on this verse).
- The Fourfold Gospel:
(No comment on this verse).
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