SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:11
Mas os hago saber, hermanos, que el Evangelio que ha sido anunciado por mí, no es segn hombre;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Galatians 1:11
Verse 11. But I certify you, brethren, &c.] I wish you fully to comprehend that the Gospel which I preached to you is not after man; there is not a spark of human invention in it, nor the slightest touch of human cunning.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. But I certify you, brethren , etc..] Though the Galatians had gone such lengths with their false teachers, yet the apostle still calls them brethren; as hoping well of them, that they were born of God, did belong to his family, and were heirs of the grace of life; and this he the rather makes use of, to show his affection to them, and to engage their attention to the assurance he gives, of the divine original and authority of the Gospel preached by him; which though they formerly knew and believed, yet through the insinuations of the false apostles, were drawn into some doubts about it: wherefore he declares in the most solemn and affectionate manner, that the Gospel which was preached of me, is not after man . Their guides that were leading them wrong, did not presume to say, that the Gospel was after man, for they themselves pretended to preach the Gospel; but that the Gospel preached by the apostle had no other authority than human, or than his own to support it: wherefore he denies that it was after man; after the wisdom of man, an human invention and contrivance, a device and fiction of man's brain; nor was it after the mind of man, or agreeably to his carnal reason, it was disapproved of by him, and beyond his capacity to reach it; nor was it of his revealing, a discovery of his; flesh and blood, human nature, could never have revealed it; nor is it in the power of one man to make another a minister of the Gospel, or to give him or himself success in the ministration of it, but the whole is of God.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-14 - In preaching the gospel, the apostle sought to bring persons to the obedience, not of men, but of God. But Paul would not attempt to alte the doctrine of Christ, either to gain their favour, or to avoid their fury. In so important a matter we must not fear the frowns of men, no seek their favour, by using words of men's wisdom. Concerning the manner wherein he received the gospel, he had it by revelation from Heaven. He was not led to Christianity, as many are, merely by education.
Greek Textus Receptus
γνωριζω 1107 5719 δε 1161 υμιν 5213 αδελφοι 80 το 3588 ευαγγελιον 2098 το 3588 ευαγγελισθεν 2097 5685 υπ 5259 εμου 1700 οτι 3754 ουκ 3756 εστιν 2076 5748 κατα 2596 ανθρωπον 444
Vincent's NT Word Studies
11. I certify (gnwrizw). Or, I make known. Certify, even in older English, is to assure or attest, which is too strong for gnwrizein to make known or declare. This, which in the New Testament is the universal meaning of gnwrizein, and the prevailing sense in LXX, is extremely rare in Class., where the usual sense is to become acquainted with. For the formula see on 1 Thess. iv. 13.
After man (kata anqrwpon). According to any human standard. The phrase only in Paul. See Rom. iii. 5; 1 Cor. iii. 3; ix. 8; xv. 32. Kata ajnqrwpouv according to men, 1 Pet. iv. 6.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
1:11 {Which was preached} (to euaggelisqen). Play on the word euaggelion by first aorist passive participle of euaggelizw, "the gospel which was gospelized by me." {It is not after man} (ouk estin kata anqrwpon). Not after a human standard and so he does not try to conform to the human ideal. Paul alone (#1Co 3:3; 9:8; 15:32; Ro 3:15) in the N.T. uses this old and common idiom.
