John Damascene : Do you see how he constantly affirms that he became God's disciple, in contrast to the claim of those who imposed the circumcision upon the Galatians, arguing that those who become disciples of Christ, i.e. Peter and James and John, permit the circumcision, whereas he is a disciple of the disciples and, therefore, they should not pay attention to them rather than to him? Oecumenius : He says, "For I neither received it from man." For this is what his slanderers were saying about him: that Paul received the preaching from men, not, as those supporting Peter claimed, from Christ. Therefore they said: He ought not to be trusted. — Commentary on Galatians Pamphilus of Caesarea : Therefore he shows plainly that Jesus was not a [mere] man; and if he is not a man then without doubt he is God. — APOLOGY FOR ORIGEN Theodoret of Cyrus : It was very shrewd of him to mention revelation, for the Lord Jesus had been taken up and was no longer seen equally of all. But to Paul he had appeared on the road and made him worthy of the ministry of proclamation. And this again he sets against their slanders, showing that in this too he did not fall short of the apostles. For just as the Galatians received the gospel from him, so likewise he had Christ himself as a teacher. — EPISTLE TO THE Galatians 1.12