Hi, I'm Michael Barber and this is my dear friend Jim Prothro, and we're professors here at the Augustine Institute Graduate School of Theology.

We're working our way through the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians.

And this is really, I think, my favorite epistle to teach.

When I teach Paul, I think I usually begin with this epistle just because it introduces so many key ideas that you find in Paul's letters.

You know, there are a lot of places in Paul's letters where he'll say, therefore.

And you're like, okay, what's the therefore, therefore?

I have no idea what the logical progression of thought here

is, and it gets doubly complicated in the liturgy when we hear Paul read at Mass, we often just get

these short snippets, and so the reading will be getting, therefore, wait a minute, what was just

said? How does that serve as the basis

for what he's about to say? So for a lot of us as Catholics, I think Paul feels like an away game,

right? It feels like territory we're not all that familiar with. And non-Catholic Christians

oftentimes read and study Paul very, very carefully. And so when we

encounter discussions of Paul and non-Catholic circles, we often feel at a bit of a disadvantage.

So what we want to do here is help people really read through this fine letter. So much could be

said about it. But now we're getting to an area, a passage in Paul,

that has been the subject of a lot of discussion, the Antioch incident, right? So let's pick up here

and then we'll talk about these verses picking up in chapter 2, verse 11. But when Khafos came to Antioch, Paul says,

I opposed him to his face. Wow. Okay, so who's Kphos? That's Peter. So Paul is saying that he

opposed Peter to his face. Why? Because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, and James, of course, is in

Jerusalem. So there's a bit of a question, did James send these men? It doesn't say that. It probably

just means that these are people who came from Jerusalem, but there's some discussion about that.

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