Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1899. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE EPISTLE TO THE GALATIANS If the second Epistle to the Corinthians was the most emotional which St. Paul wrote, this is the most vehement and impetuous. The Galatians had relapsed from the freedom and spirituality of the Gospel into what St. Paul now regarded as the pettiness and puerility of Judaism, with its Pharisaic development of rites and ceremonies, of times, and seasons, and days, and years. This letter was intended to arouse the Galatian churches out of this degenerate materialism and bondage, into the spiritual freedom wherewith God had made them free. He desired to impress on them the truth that the substitution of outward nullities for the reality of a holiness which springs from faith in Christ is nothing better than a self-deceiving sham. This is, as Tertullian says, "the principal epistle against Judaism." It falls into three divisions: (i) Personal, (ii) Dogmatic, (iii) Practical. The key-note of the letter is Deliverance from legal slavery to gospel freedom. Its motto might be -- "He is a freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." CHAPTER I. 1. St. Paul begins by describing his Apostleship as having been derived neither from men as its source, nor by the instrumentality of any man, but through Christ, and God who raised Him from the dead. Neither ultimately, nor mediately, had he derived his Apostleship from human sources. 3. "Grace and peace." His greeting unites the "joy" which the Greeks, and the "peace" which the Hebrews wished each other; but both so spiritualised as to include the blessings which spring from the love of God in Christ. These would suffice to snatch them away at once from the impending wickedness of an evil age (ver. 4). 6-9. He plunges into the expression of astonishment at their swift change from Ch...
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