Galatians 1:14 (WEB)
I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
Fathers and councils · 3
Tertullian
“…child’s I abandoned:” so truly did he turn away from his early opinions: nor did he sin by becoming an emulator not of ancestral but of Christian traditions, wishing even the precision of them who advised the retention of circumcision.” — editor's note: Comp. Gal. i. 14 with 2 Thess. ii. 15.
Read the whole comment“…consulted, determined, by the authority of the Holy Ghost, that “a yoke should not be put upon men’s necks which their fathers even had not been able to bear.”” — editor's note: See Gal. i. 11–24, compared with Acts xv. 5–29.
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Basil the Great
“All those whose soundness of character leads them to hold the dignity of antiquity to be more honourable than mere new-fangled novelty, and who have preserved the tradition of their fathers unadulterated, alike in town and in country, have employed this phrase.” — editor's note: cf. Gal. i. 14.
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Cross-references · 7
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
Cited together in On the Holy Spirit Chapter 6.
