And was unknown by face unto the churches of Judea which were in Christ:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
What modesty in thus again mentioning the facts of his persecuting and laying waste the Church, and in thus making infamous his former life, while he passes over the illustrious deeds he was about to achieve! He might have told, had he wished it, all his successes, but he mentions none of these and stepping with one word over a vast expanse, he says merely, I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia; and, they had heard, that he, which once persecuted us, now preaches the faith of which he once made havoc. The purpose of the words, I was unknown to the Churches of Judæa, is to show, that so far from preaching to them the necessity of circumcision, he was not known to them even by sight.
