Gálatas 1
Augustine of Hippo · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Gálatas 1:1
The one sent "from men" is a liar; the one sent "through man" tells the truth, as God too, who is truthful, may send truth through men. The one, therefore, who is sent not from men or through man but "through God" derives his truthfulness from the One who makes truthful even those sent through men. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 2
Gálatas 1:3
The grace of God, by which our sins are forgiven, is the condition of our being reconciled to him, whereas peace is that wherein we are reconciled. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3 [1B.1.3-5]
Gálatas 1:5
How much more, therefore, ought men not to claim the credit for themselves if they perform any good work, when the very Son of God in the Gospel said that he sought not his own glory. Nor had he come to do his own will but the will of him who sent him! This will and glory of the Father the apostle now commemorates, that he also, by the example of the Lord who sent him, may indicate that he seeks not his own glory or the performance of his own will in the preaching of the gospel, just as he says a little later, "if I were to please men, I should not be a servant of Christ." — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 3 [1B.1.3-5]
Gálatas 1:6
If it were another gospel other than the one that the Lord has given through himself or through some other, it would not be a gospel. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 4 [1B.1.6-9]
Gálatas 1:10
No one persuades God, for all things are manifest to him. But a person does well in wishing to persuade others when it is not himself that he wishes them to like but the truth that he persuades them of.… When one pleases others on account of truth, it is not the proclaimer himself but the truth that pleases.… Thus the sense is, "Do I then persuade men or God? And since it is men that I persuade, do I seek to please them? If I still sought to please men, I should not be Christ's servant. For he bids his servants to learn from him to be meek and lowly of heart, which is utterly impossible for one who seeks to please men on his own account, for his own private and special glory." … Both then can be rightly said: "I please" and "I do not please." — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 5 [1B.1.10]
Gálatas 1:11
The gospel that is "according to men" is a lie, for every person is a liar, seeing that whatever truth is found in a man is not from the man but through the man from God. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 6 [1B.1.11-12]7
Gálatas 1:13
If therefore he showed prowess in Judaism by persecuting and wasting God's church, it is obvious that Judaism is contrary to the church of God, not through that spiritual law which the Jews had received but through their carnal habit of servitude. And if Paul as a zealot—that is, an imitator of late Judaic traditions—persecuted the church of God, his paternal traditions are contrary to God's church, but the blame does not belong to the law itself. For the law is spiritual and does not allow itself to be interpreted carnally. That is the fault of those who understand carnally the things that they have received and who also have handed down many things of their own, undermining, as the Lord said, the command of God through their traditions. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 7 [1B.1.13-14]
Gálatas 1:18
If, when Paul had evangelized Arabia, he subsequently saw Peter, it was not so that he might learn the gospel from Peter himself (for then he would have seen him before) but so that he might enhance familial love by being with the apostles. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 8 [1B.1.15-19]
Gálatas 1:20
He certainly swears, and what oath could be more sacred? But an oath is not against the commandment when the "evil cause" is not in the swearer but in the incredulity of him to whom he is forced to swear. For we understand from this that what the Lord meant in prohibiting oaths was that everyone, so far as in him it lies, should not swear the oaths that many do, having the oath on their lips as though it were something lofty and elegant. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 9 [1B.1.20-24]
Gálatas 1:22
It should be observed that Jews had believed in Christ not only in Jerusalem, nor were they so few that they had been absorbed into the Gentile churches, but they were so numerous that churches came into being from them. — EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS 9 [1B.1.20-24]