James, Peter and John in Galatians
Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 3:35 am
In Galatians, Paul chronicles the occasions and relates the circumstances that he consulted with Peter the chief apostle, and James the bishop, and John the theologian.
Paul names all three of Jesus' archbishops in a clandestine fashion. The passage is not worded in the well-known gospel structure of 'Peter, and James, and John', or as 'Peter, and John, and James', but as 'James, Cephas, and John', combined with 'who seemed to be pillars', and not with wording such as, "that ruled the church from Jerusalem, and Rome, and Ephesus".
Protection of the Christian top tier was an imperative and that's encompassed in the obfuscation format of Paul's epistle, and with Christian writings. By avoiding to publish certified identities matched to a specific relationship, Christians endeavored to keep the brethren out of harms way from religious and political opposition: Letter of Aristeas, ‹our law forbids us to injure any one by word or deed›.
Up to his death in April, A.D. 70¹ and continuing after, the Bishop of Jerusalem didn't have his full name certified in the gospel, and such is the opacity of the fellowship by not clearly identifying him, James, 'the brother of the Lord' is not known today as James son of Zebedee.
The Galatians text of 'But other of the apostles saw I none, save James, the Lord's brother' is written in the vernacular — that is the apostle James in appearance and character was 'the brother of the Lord'.
James was thought to be a brother of the Lord, 'according to the flesh'² that is according to the foolish wisdom of the flesh. Jesus Christ, however called him his brother on account of James' venerable character,³ appendant to his material physiology of being a brother ‹in the flesh›³, due to the coequal nurturing of their upbringing³.
James son of Zebedee was called "brother" by Jesus Christ for he held James venerable, approved by the Father.³ Bearing the authoritativeness of Jesus Christ, James is endowed a brother in the vernacular, consonant with gospel recordings of kinship and extended relationships, from which consistency with theology emerges.
In Galatians James, for a preventative measure, is not openly addressed as the bishop promulgating³ Christianity in Jerusalem, and Paul is non-descript as to kind of brother of the Lord — biological, uterine or vernacular — in order to prevent assailers targeting in certainty him and the respective kith and kin.
Cephas, is non-descript as the chief apostle Peter³ and is kept opaque especially by Paul, for Peter having received the apostle's leadership after Jesus Christ's departure, consequently had to avoid a similar fate as head of the sect. Having the chief apostle not identified in certainty was a preventative against the assailing of him and of his kith and kin.
John, the apostle charged with the administration of the church and its doctrine is also kept non-descript, to avoid threats to the well-being of the administrator chiefly responsible for the spreading of the Christian doctrine.† Not having a principal administrator identified in certainty is a preventative against the assailing of him, and of his kith and kin.
¹Hegesippus. ²Didascalia. ³Apocalypse of James; Böhlig; Contendings of the Apostles. †Assumption of the Virgin.
Replication from original, see here.
Paul names all three of Jesus' archbishops in a clandestine fashion. The passage is not worded in the well-known gospel structure of 'Peter, and James, and John', or as 'Peter, and John, and James', but as 'James, Cephas, and John', combined with 'who seemed to be pillars', and not with wording such as, "that ruled the church from Jerusalem, and Rome, and Ephesus".
Protection of the Christian top tier was an imperative and that's encompassed in the obfuscation format of Paul's epistle, and with Christian writings. By avoiding to publish certified identities matched to a specific relationship, Christians endeavored to keep the brethren out of harms way from religious and political opposition: Letter of Aristeas, ‹our law forbids us to injure any one by word or deed›.
Up to his death in April, A.D. 70¹ and continuing after, the Bishop of Jerusalem didn't have his full name certified in the gospel, and such is the opacity of the fellowship by not clearly identifying him, James, 'the brother of the Lord' is not known today as James son of Zebedee.
The Galatians text of 'But other of the apostles saw I none, save James, the Lord's brother' is written in the vernacular — that is the apostle James in appearance and character was 'the brother of the Lord'.
James was thought to be a brother of the Lord, 'according to the flesh'² that is according to the foolish wisdom of the flesh. Jesus Christ, however called him his brother on account of James' venerable character,³ appendant to his material physiology of being a brother ‹in the flesh›³, due to the coequal nurturing of their upbringing³.
James son of Zebedee was called "brother" by Jesus Christ for he held James venerable, approved by the Father.³ Bearing the authoritativeness of Jesus Christ, James is endowed a brother in the vernacular, consonant with gospel recordings of kinship and extended relationships, from which consistency with theology emerges.
In Galatians James, for a preventative measure, is not openly addressed as the bishop promulgating³ Christianity in Jerusalem, and Paul is non-descript as to kind of brother of the Lord — biological, uterine or vernacular — in order to prevent assailers targeting in certainty him and the respective kith and kin.
Cephas, is non-descript as the chief apostle Peter³ and is kept opaque especially by Paul, for Peter having received the apostle's leadership after Jesus Christ's departure, consequently had to avoid a similar fate as head of the sect. Having the chief apostle not identified in certainty was a preventative against the assailing of him and of his kith and kin.
John, the apostle charged with the administration of the church and its doctrine is also kept non-descript, to avoid threats to the well-being of the administrator chiefly responsible for the spreading of the Christian doctrine.† Not having a principal administrator identified in certainty is a preventative against the assailing of him, and of his kith and kin.
¹Hegesippus. ²Didascalia. ³Apocalypse of James; Böhlig; Contendings of the Apostles. †Assumption of the Virgin.
Replication from original, see here.