It is an Historical Fact that Human Nature is Always Below Revelation
Galatians 1:11-12
But I certify you, brothers, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.…


Great discoveries are usually the product of preceding ages of thought. One mind developes the idea; but it is the fruitage of the ages ripened in that mind. A pearl is found; but the location has been indicated by previous researches. But revealed religion is something different from this. It is separate from and superior to the thought of the age. It calls the wisdom of the world foolishness, and introduces a new standpoint and starting-point around which it gathers what was valuable in the old, and destroys the remainder. Hence it will always be found true that a struggle is necessary to bring up the human mind and keep it up to the level of revealed religion, anti that revealed religion produces the struggle. Even those who profess to be its friends retrograde as soon as its power abates, and new applications of that power have to be made to bring them up again.

(J. B. Walker, M. A.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.

WEB: But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man.




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