I, at least, did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came to me through a revelation made by Jesus Christ.

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism--how I persecuted the Church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,

But I was still unknown even by sight to the Christian Churches in Judea;

All that they had heard was--'The man who once persecuted us is now telling the Good News of the very Faith of which he once made havoc.'

It was in obedience to a revelation that I went; and I laid before the Apostles the Good News that I am proclaiming among the Gentiles. I did this privately before those who are thought highly of, for fear that I might possibly be taking, or might have already taken, a course which would prove useless.

Yet even my companion, Titus, though a Greek, was not compelled to be circumcised.

Only we were to remember the poor--the very thing I was myself anxious to do.

The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.

I do not reject the love of God. If righteousness comes through Law, then there was no need for Christ to die!

Foolish Galatians! Who has been fascinating you--you before whose very eyes Jesus Christ was depicted upon the cross?

Did you go through so much to no purpose?--if indeed it really was to no purpose!

It is just as it was with Abraham--'He had faith in God, and his faith was regarded by God as righteousness.'

Now it was to Abraham that the promises were made, 'and to his offspring.' It was not said 'to his offsprings,' as if many persons were meant, but the words were 'to thy offspring,' showing that one person was meant--and that was Christ.

What, then, you ask, was the use of the Law? It was a later addition, to make men conscious of their wrong-doings, and intended to last only till the coming of that 'offspring' to whom the promise had been made; and it was delivered through angels by a mediator.

Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the Law, in bondage, awaiting the Faith that was destined to be revealed.

You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the Good News.

But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise.