Reading for January 12th

Read Galatians 1.1-12
In verses 1-5: Greeting.
In verse 1: Paul's strong denial of the human origin of his apostleship (1.11-12) is a hint of the controversy that drives this letter.
In verse 4: Gave himself: Christ's death is understood as a sin offering for others (Eph 5.2; Lev 4-5).
In verses 6-12: Paul defends his gospel.
Paul omits his normal opening prayer of thanksgiving for his readers, showing how angry he is with them (contrast 1 Cor 1.4-9).
In verse 6-7: Different gospel refers to the views Paul opposes in the letter, manly, that God requires gentile Christians to observe the Mosaic law (4.21; 5.2-4).
In verse 8-9: The use of a double curse is especially emphatic (1 Cor 16.22).
In verse 10: The perspective of Paul's critics.
In verses 11-12: Human origin renders "kata anthropon," literally "according to man," thus human.
Revelation of Jesus Christ: paul's understanding of the gospel occurred through a revelation whose content was Jesus Christ (v. 16).
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