Charles L. Feinberg

And he says this, he says, So to what or to whom does the phrase synagogue of Satan refer? Well, a helpful explanation was given by Dr.

Charles Feinberg, founding dean of Talbot School of Theology.

He suggests that it refers to a group of people who were advocating a false teaching that Gentiles needed to convert to Judaism through circumcision before ever trusting in Jesus the Messiah.

They were adding works to justification by faith alone, even as the false teachers in Galatia had demanded much earlier.