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Returning from this first missionary journey to Antioch, they were again sent up to Jerusalem to consult with the church there regarding the relation of Gentiles to the church ( Acts 15: 2 ; Galatians 2: 1 ).
The Galatians were in their origin a part of the great Celtic migration which invaded Italy and Macedon, led by Brennus.
While the momentum of the invasion was broken, the Galatians were by no means exterminated.
Josephus related the Biblical figure Gomer to Galatia ( or perhaps to Gaul in general ): " For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, but were then called Gomerites.
The Galatians were still speaking the Galatian language ( Gaulish ) in the time of St. Jerome ( 347 – 420 AD ), who wrote that the Galatians of Ancyra and the Treveri of Trier ( in what is now the German Rhineland ) spoke the same language ( Comentarii in Epistolam ad Galatos, 2. 3, composed c. 387 ).
He had previously written his commentaries on the Epistle to Galatians ( 1865 ), Epistle to Philippians ( 1868 ) and Epistle to the Colossians ( 1875 ), the notes to which were distinguished by sound judgment and enriched from his large store of patristic and classical learning.
In Galatians the Judaizers were trying to insist that salvation required that a person be circumcised prior to obeying the Law of Christ.
Deiotarus become an ally of the Roman Republic general Pompey in 63 BC, who named him king of all the Celtic tribes of Asia minor, which were collectively known as Galatians ( hence the name Galatia for the region ).
Kelly states that Saint Paul is a witness to the fact that even while the New Testament was being written hard-and-fast outlines of the faith were emerging for the transmission of authoritative doctrine and gives examples from Galatians, 2 Thessalonians, Romans and 1 Corinthians ).
The estimation of the year of Paul's conversion relies on a series of calculations working backwards from the well established date of his trial before Gallio ( mentioned in the Delphi Inscription ) in Achaea Greece ( Acts 18: 12-17 ) AD 51-52, the meeting of Priscilla and Aquila which were expelled from Rome about AD 49 and the 14-year period before returning to Jerusalem in Galatians 2: 1.
The letters were written during a time when Paul recorded encounters with the disciples of Jesus, e. g. Galatians 1: 18 states that several years after his conversion Paul went to Jerusalem and stayed with Apostle Peter for fifteen days.
Meanwhile, fights for the sharing of Anatolia continued and were complicated by the Galatians coming in from Europe.
While the Hellenistic Kingdoms ( the inheritors of Alexander the Great ) were fighting each other and the Galatians, Rome became the most powerful state in Europe and started to follow a policy of expansion to the east.
Passages from Galatians were used to show that Paul respected Peter's office and acknowledged a shared faith.
The Greeks believe that the name comes either from Galaktos ( meaning milk, as the area was used by shepherds in the early medieval period ) or from the word Galat ( meaning Celtic in Greek ) as the Celtic tribe of Galatians were thought to have camped here during the Hellenistic period before settling into Galatia in central Anatolia.
Galatians 3: 26 " So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.
Even so, the Hellenistic kings were never in complete control, in part because Anatolia was contested between the Selucids, the Attalids of Pergamon, and the Galatians, invading Celts from Europe.
Josephus placed Gomer and the " Gomerites " in Anatolian Galatia: " For Gomer founded those whom the Greeks now call Galatians, but were then called Gomerites.
The prescribed readings for the Sunday were from the Epistle to the Galatians, Paul's admonition to " walk in the Spirit " (), and from the Gospel of Matthew, from the Sermon on the Mount the demand not to worry about material needs, but to seek God's kingdom first ().

Galatians and from
It is more likely that the epistle was written some time before the Jerusalem council, and that teachers came from Jerusalem to Antioch teaching the need for it after Paul wrote his epistle to the Galatians, churches from the first missionary journey, addressing this issue.
The Galatians appear to have been receptive to the teaching of these newcomers, and the epistle is Paul's response to what he sees as their willingness to turn from his teaching.
Subsequently, the Galatians continued to be subsumed into the Greek world until their culture was barely indistinguishable from the Greeks before disappearing under the Turkish and Islamic Jihad and Genocide of Byzantine Anatolia.
St. Paul in opposing his enemies in Galatia names John explicitly along with Peter and James the Just ( the brother of Jesus ) as a " pillar of the Church ", and refers to the recognition which his Apostolic preaching of a Gospel free from the law received from these three, the most prominent men of the old Mother-Church at Jerusalem ( Galatians 2: 9 ).
All three letters of John likely date from the mid-first-century, during a time of intense inter-apostolic rivalry between Paul and the Jerusalem leaders, evidenced most dramatically, for example, in Paul's epistle to the Galatians.
The term originates from the line at the end of Saint Paul's Letter to the Galatians where he says, " I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.
"< ref name =" Luther "> Selected passages from Martin Luther, " Commentary on Galatians ( 1538 )" as translated in Herbert J.
* Galatians 5: 4, 5: " Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law ; ye are fallen from grace.
* Antiochus Hierax, brother of the Seleucid King Seleucus II manages to escape from captivity in Thrace and flees to the mountains to raise an army, but he is killed by a band of Galatians.
Some insight about the Hellenistic perception of and attitude to " Barbarians " can be taken from the " Dying Gaul ", a statue commissioned by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Celtic Galatians in Anatolia ( the bronze original is lost, but a Roman marble copy was found in the 17th century ).
In this he contends that only the Epistle to Galatians, First and Second Epistle to the Corinthians and Epistle to the Romans are genuinely Pauline, and that the Paul of the Acts of the Apostles is a different person from the Paul of these genuine Epistles, the author being a Paulinist who, with an eye to the different parties in the Church, is at pains to represent Peter as far as possible as a Paulinist and Paul as far as possible as a Petrinist.
* Bentleii Critica Sacra ( 1862 ), edited by AA Ellis, contains the epistle to the Galatians ( and excerpts ), printed from an interleaved folio copy of the Greek and Latin Vulgate in Trinity College.
It is significant for being an innovative departure from the early English hymn style of only using paraphrased biblical texts, although the first two lines of the second verse do paraphrase St Paul at Galatians 6: 14.
The motto is from the Epistle to the Galatians, Chapter V, Verse 13.
Campbell took his cue from his close reading of the early church fathers, the historic Reformed confessions and catechisms, John Calvin, Martin Luther's commentary on Galatians, and Jonathan Edwards ' works.
He is distinguished from the Apostle James, son of Zebedee by various epithets ; he is called James the brother of the Lord by Paul ( Galatians 1: 19 ), James the brother of the Lord, surnamed the Just by Hegesippus and others, " James the Righteous ", " James of Jerusalem ", " James Adelphotheos " ( Ἰάκωβος ὁ ἀδελφόθεος ), and so on.
The published text bore the epigraph, " Ye shall overcome if ye faint not ", derived from Galatians 6: 9: " And let us not be weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Galatians and Gal
Paul's own record of the meeting appears to be Galatians 2, however, due to the differences, some argue Gal 2 is a different meeting.
However, the Pauline letters clearly indicate that for Paul Jesus was a real person ( born of a woman as in Gal 4. 4 ) who had disciples ( 1 Corinthians 15. 5 ) and who was crucified ( as in 1 Corinthians 2. 2 and Galatians 3. 1 ).
The Galatians Speaks of the cities of Derbe, Lystra and Iconium-cities visited by Paul on his first journey ( Acts 14 ; Gal.

Galatians and .
Galatians 15.
Galatians 20.
It has been argued that the name " Titus " in 2 Corinthians and Galatians is nothing more than an informal name used by Timothy, implied already by the fact that even though both are said to be long-term close companions of Paul, they never appear in common scenes.
Paul wrote that Jesus was " born of a woman, born under the law " and " as to his human nature was a descendant of David " in the Epistle to the Galatians and the Epistle to the Romans.
Paul the Apostle quotes this verse twice in his epistles: in Romans 1: 17 and again in Galatians 3: 11.
It is quite likely, however, that the epistle of Galatians was written prior to the Jerusalem council, and that it refers to a meeting between Paul, Barnabas, and Peter, James, and John that happened earlier.
The Apostle Paul wrote an entire epistle, Galatians, antagonistic to the teachings of a Jewish sect that claimed adherence to the teachings of both Jesus and Moses ( cf.
Not numbered among the Twelve Apostles, unless he is identified as James the Less, James was nonetheless a very important figure: Paul described him as " the brother of the Lord " in Galatians 1: 19 and as one of the three " pillars of the Church " in 2: 9.
The Epistle to the Galatians, often shortened to Galatians, is the ninth book of the New Testament.
Biblical scholars agree that Galatians is a true example of Paul's writing.
The main arguments in favor of the authenticity of Galatians include its style and themes, which are common to the core letters of the Pauline corpus.
Paul's letter is addressed " to the churches in Galatia " ( Galatians 1: 2 ), but the location of these churches is a matter of debate.
Biblical scholars agree that Galatians was written between the late 40s and early 50s.
However there are three main theories about when Galatians was written and to whom.
In this view, the visit to Jerusalem, mentioned in Galatians 2: 1 – 10, is identical with that of Acts 15, which is spoken of as a thing of the past.
The South Galatian view holds that Paul wrote Galatians before or shortly after the First Jerusalem Council, probably on his way to it, and that it was written to churches he had presumably planted during either his time in Tarsus ( he would have traveled a short distance, since Tarsus is in Cilicia ) after his first visit to Jerusalem as a Christian, or during his first missionary journey, when he traveled throughout southern Galatia.
A third theory is that Galatians 2: 1-10 describes Paul and Barnabas ' visit to Jerusalem described in Acts 11: 30 and 12: 25.
In addition, the exclusion of any mention of the letter of Acts 15 is seen to indicate that such a letter did not yet exist, since Paul would have been likely to use it against the legalism confronted in Galatians.
Galatians also contains a catalogue of vices and virtues, a popular formulation of ancient Christian ethics.
* Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897: Epistle to the Galatians, commencing " The genuineness of this epistle is not called in question.
The Interpretation of St. Paul ’ s Epistles to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, and to the Philippians.

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