“Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.”
As you know, it was because of an illness that I first preached the gospel to you. — Paul's founding mission among the Galatians was occasioned by illness ('astheneia'), a physical weakness that became the vehicle of grace; his vulnerability became the occasion of their gospel-reception, a reversal where bodily weakness carries divine power.
Church Fathers on Galatians 4:13
“But you know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel unto you the first time. And that which was a temptation in my flesh you despised not, nor rejected.” Not to have injured one is indeed no great thing, for no man whatever would choose to hurt wantonly and without object to annoy another who had never injured him. But for you, not only have you not injured me, but you have shown me great and inexpressible kindness, and it is impossible that one who…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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