by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father,”887 [so with the rest;]888 the Son indeed
leading them to the Father, but the Father revealing to them the Son.
3. But that Paul acceded to [the request of] those who summoned him to the apostles,
on account of the question [which had been raised], and went up to them, with Barnabas,
to Jerusalem, not without reason, but that the liberty of the Gentiles might be confirmed by
them, he does himself say, in the Epistle to the Galatians: “Then, fourteen years after, I went
up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking also Titus. But I went up by revelation, and
communicated to them that Gospel which I preached among the Gentiles.”889 And again
he says, “For an hour we did give place to subjection,890 that the truth of the gospel might
continue with you.” If, then, any one shall, from the Acts of the Apostles, carefully scrutinize
the time concerning which it is written that he went up to Jerusalem on account of the
forementioned question, he will find those years mentioned by Paul coinciding with it. Thus
the statement of Paul harmonizes with, and is, as it were, identical with, the testimony of
Luke regarding the apostles.
887 Gal. i. 1.
888 Some such supplement seems necessary, as Grabe suggests, though Harvey contends that no apodosis is
requisite.
889 Gal. ii. 1, 2.
890 Latin, “Ad horam cessimus subjectioni” (Gal. ii. 5). Irenæus gives it an altogether different meaning from
that which it has in the received text. Jerome says that there was as much variation in the copies of Scripture in
his day with regard to the passage,—some retaining, others rejecting the negative (Adv. Marc. v. 3).
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