The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians
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Findlay George Gillanders. The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Galatians
THE PROLOGUE. Chapter i. 1-10
CHAPTER I. THE ADDRESS
CHAPTER II. THE SALUTATION
CHAPTER III. THE ANATHEMA
THE PERSONAL HISTORY. Chapter i. 11-ii. 21
CHAPTER IV. PAUL'S GOSPEL REVEALED BY CHRIST
CHAPTER V. PAUL'S DIVINE COMMISSION
CHAPTER VI. PAUL AND THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH
CHAPTER VII. PAUL AND THE FALSE BRETHREN
CHAPTER VIII. PAUL AND THE THREE PILLARS
CHAPTER IX. PAUL AND PETER AT ANTIOCH
CHAPTER X. THE PRINCIPLES AT STAKE
THE DOCTRINAL POLEMIC. Chap. iii. 1-v. 12
CHAPTER XI. THE GALATIAN FOLLY
CHAPTER XII. ABRAHAM'S BLESSING AND THE LAW'S CURSE
CHAPTER XIII. THE COVENANT OF PROMISE
CHAPTER XIV. THE DESIGN OF THE LAW
CHAPTER XV. THE EMANCIPATED SONS OF GOD
CHAPTER XVI. THE HEIR'S COMING OF AGE
CHAPTER XVII. THE RETURN TO BONDAGE
CHAPTER XVIII. PAUL'S ENTREATY
CHAPTER XIX. THE STORY OF HAGAR
CHAPTER XX. SHALL THE GALATIANS BE CIRCUMCISED
CHAPTER XXI. THE HINDERERS AND TROUBLERS
THE ETHICAL APPLICATION. Chapter v. 13-vi. 10
CHAPTER XXII. THE PERILS OF LIBERTY
CHAPTER XXIII. CHRIST'S SPIRIT AND HUMAN FLESH
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WORKS OF THE FLESH
CHAPTER XXV. THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
CHAPTER XXVI. OUR BROTHER'S BURDEN AND OUR OWN
CHAPTER XXVII. SOWING AND REAPING
THE EPILOGUE. Chapter vi. 11-18
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FALSE AND THE TRUE GLORYING
CHAPTER XXIX. RITUAL NOTHING: CHARACTER EVERYTHING
CHAPTER XXX. THE BRAND OF JESUS
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Antiquity has nothing to show more notable in its kind, or more precious, than this letter of Paul to the Churches of Galatia. It takes us back, in some respects nearer than any other document we possess, to the beginnings of Christian theology and the Christian Church. In it the spiritual consciousness of Christianity first reveals itself in its distinctive character and its full strength, free from the trammels of the past, realizing the advent of the new kingdom of God that was founded in the death of Christ. It is the voice of the Church testifying "God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts." Buried for a thousand years under the weight of the Catholic legalism, the teaching of this Epistle came to life again in the rise of Protestantism. Martin Luther put it to his lips as a trumpet to blow the reveillé of the Reformation. His famous Commentary summoned enslaved Christendom to recover "the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free." Of all the great Reformer's writings this was the widest in its influence and the dearest to himself. For the spirit of Paul lived again in Luther, as in no other since the Apostle's day. The Epistle to the Galatians is the charter of Evangelical faith.
The historical criticism of the present century has brought this writing once more to the front of the conflict of faith. Born in controversy, it seems inevitably to be born for controversy. Its interpretation forms the pivot of the most thoroughgoing recent discussions touching the beginnings of Christian history and the authenticity of the New Testament record. The Galatian Epistle is, in fact, the key of New Testament Apologetics. Round it the Roman and Corinthian Letters group themselves, forming together a solid, impregnable quaternion, and supplying a fixed starting-point and an indubitable test for the examination of the critical questions belonging to the Apostolic age. Whatever else may be disputed, it is agreed that there was an apostle Paul, who wrote these four Epistles to certain Christian societies gathered out of heathenism, communities numerous, widely scattered, and containing men of advanced intelligence; and this within thirty years of the death of Jesus Christ. Every critic must reckon with this fact. The most sceptical criticism makes a respectful pause before our Epistle. Hopeless of destroying its testimony, Rationalism treats it with an even exaggerated deference; and seeks to extract evidence from it against its companion witnesses amongst the New Testament writings. This attempt, however misdirected, is a signal tribute to the importance of the document, and to the force with which the personality of the writer and the conditions of the time have stamped themselves upon it. The deductions of the Baurian criticism appear to us to rest on a narrow and arbitrary examination of isolated passages; they spring from a mistaken à priori view of the historical situation. Granting however to these inferences, which will meet us as we proceed, their utmost weight, they still leave the testimony of Paul to the supernatural character of Christianity substantially intact.
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Let us endeavour to form a clear conception of the facts touching Paul's connection with the first Apostles and his attitude and feeling towards the Jewish Church, as they are in evidence in the first two chapters of this Epistle.
I. On the one hand, it is clear that the Gentile Apostle's relations to Peter and the Twelve were those of personal independence and official equality.
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