Of course our extant text of Galatians all but compels a reading of "the gospel message" in Gal 1:11 that confines it to Paul's supposedly merely practical convinctions about Torah observance and its relaxation. But that's a canonical, redacted, corrupted reading of the text. The original Marcionite meaning was something far more dramatic, as indicated by the rhetorical intensity.Irish1975 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 10:40 am The capital assertion of the apostle in the opening of Galatians is that his (the apostle's) true Gospel was vouchsafed to him (the apostle) not kata anthropon, not "according to so-and-so," but "through a revelation (apocalypsis) of Jesus Christ." The plain meaning of this testimony (which again, appears at the head of Marcion's Apostolikon, since Galatians appears there as the first epistle) is that the story propagated by "the defenders of Judaism," of a good news about Jesus Christ handed down by human-to-human tradition, oral or written, was a "falsification." (A falsification of what? we should ask.) Certain false apostles had perverted the true Gospel, which had come to the apostle by revelation, not kata anthropon. Marcion’s model of revelation was spiritual rather than pseudo-historical.
Not that the abolition of the Law was anything minor. But the rage of Galatians 1--which Brodie makes a good case as being a midrash of Jeremiah, and not any authentic episode in the life of "Paul"--has got to have a deeper meaning. We have to at least entertain that it was about the theft and corruption of Marcion's gospel and his scriptures.