“For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.”
Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ. — Paul pivots from anathema to self-defense, rejecting the suggestion that his gospel is a human compromise; his allegiance to Christ ('diakonos Christou') demands uncompromising proclamation regardless of human favor.
Church Fathers on Galatians 1:10
“For am I now persuading men: or God?” or am I seeking to please men? If I were still pleasing men, I should not be a servant of Christ. Granting, says he, that I might deceive you by these doctrines, could I deceive God, who knows my yet unuttered thoughts, and to please whom is my unceasing endeavor? See here the Apostolical spirit, the Evangelical loftiness! So too he writes to the Corinthians, “For we are not again commending ourselves unto you, but speak as giving you…
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