Porphyry's Witness of the Marcionite Recension of Galatians

[stephan happy huller]

That impious man Porphyry from Batanea did not comprehend any of this (i.e. the 'correct' interpretation of Galatians). In the first book of his treatise against us [Christians], he alleged that Peter had been rebuked by Paul because he did not walk uprightly as he spread the Gospel. His intention was to charge Peter with error and Paul with impudence and to implicate the entire community [of Christians] in the lie of fabricated teaching on the grounds that the leaders of the churches disagreed amongst themselves. [Jerome, Commentary on Galatians, Introduction] http://books.google.com/books?id=vwbtWm ... CDEQ6AEwAA

[andrewcriddle]

Hi Stephan

Porphyry's claim seems a plausible way for an anti-Christian writer to interpret the standard text of Galatians. I don't think it requires the use of an unusual text by Porphyry (who would probably have tried to use the standard text.)

Andrew Criddle

[stephan happy huller]

You might be right.