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1. IlctuXog d'TToffroXog, oux d'Tr dv^pui'TTMv, ovds di dvOprivov, «XX« did v XpiffTOv, %ai &sov tfarpbg rov eytipavrog dvrbv sx vexpuiv, Paul an apostle, not of [acr called by~\ men, nor by [<5/a, instructed through the instrumentality of] man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead) A remarkable anti thesis, in which, while Paul asserts his apostleship, he mentions also his divine vocation, ou/t acr dvdp^ojv, dXXa (supply 5/a) @eov varpbg, not of man, but (by) God the Father ; comp. ver. 15, and the following verses; and his immediate instruction, ou& b! avQpuvou, «X>.a 8ia 'lr,<fo\j XpiffTou, not by man but by Jesus Christ. Instruction is generally effected by one individual, for example, as Paul was instructed by Gamaliel; calling, by more than one; hence the dif ference of number, of men, by a man. Artemonius page 211, 212, contends, after Le Clerc, that we must insert u<nl from after xai : but dia, by is rightly supplied from the last clause, and the force of the particle dia by in this passage includes the meaning of the particle d^b, from, but not vice versa. Paul, when he men tions the Father and the Son in connection, often uses a single preposition. 1 Tim. vi. 13. — did, by} He had just used did with