Galatians 2:4 (WEB)
This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,
Fathers and councils · 6
Hippolytus of Rome
“…us, as the apostle says: “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 4.
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Augustine of Hippo
“Adopting the same phraseology, Paul, too, says of Christ Himself, that He was “made of a woman.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“For he would circumcise Titus also, when the Jews urged this, but that false brethren, privily brought in, wished it to be done to the intent they might have it to disseminate concerning Paul himself as a token that he…” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 3, 4
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Tertullian
““Liberty in Christ” has done no injury to innocence.” — editor's note: See Gal. ii. 4; v. 1, 13.
Read the whole comment“When, again, he mentioned “certain false brethren as having crept in unawares,” who wished to remove the Galatians into another gospel, he himself shows that that adulteration of the gospel was not meant to transfer them to the faith of another god and christ, but rather to perpetuate the…” — editor's note: See Gal. i. 6, 7, and ii. 4.
Read the whole comment“When indeed he says, that “neither was Titus circumcised,” he for the first time shows us that circumcision was the only question connected with the maintenance of the law, which had been as yet agitated by those whom he therefore calls “false brethren unawares brought in.”” — editor's note: Gal. ii. 4.
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Cross-references · 16
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Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §24.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §24.
Cited together in Exegetical Fragments §24.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
Cited together in The Five Books Against Marcion I.19.
