Galatians 4:13 You know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first. While we have more or less acquaintance with all the other important Churches of Paul's founding, not a single name of a person or place, and scarcely a single incident connected with the apostle's preaching in Galatia is preserved in either the Acts or the Epistle. This may partly be accounted for by the circumstances of the Church. The same delicacy which has concealed from us the name of the Corinthian offender may have led the apostle to avoid all special allusions in addressing a community to which he wrote in a strain of severest censure. And the historian would seem to have purposely drawn a veil over the infancy of a Church which swerved so soon and so widely from the purity of the gospel. (Bp. Lightfoot.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ye know how through infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.WEB: but you know that because of weakness of the flesh I preached the Good News to you the first time. |
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