I. THE INSCRIPTION, i. 1-5.
II. THE RECALLING OF THE GENTILES TO THE TRUE GOSPEL, WHERE
I. He reproves them, 6-10.
II. He asserts the divine authority of the Gospel preached by
himself: because he
1) From a persecutor has become an apostle by heavenly
calling, 11-17.
2) Never acted as if he had not been Peter's equal, 18, 19 :
21, 22.
in. He vindicates justification by faith, anew reproaching the Galatians, iii. 1, 2, 15 — iv. 11.
IV. He explains the same subject to the Galatians, with the most tender affection, by the allegory of the son of the bond maid and of the son of the free woman, iv. 12.
v. He then exhorts them to maintain their liberty, v. 1—12, dissuades them from its abuse, and admonishes them not to walk after the flesh, but after the Spirit, 13, 14, 16.— vi. 5, 6-10.
III. CONCLUSION, 11, 12, 17, 18. See also the note at chap. ii. 16.
— ouru ra^sus, so quickly) Paul had been with the Galatians not long before. See Ordo temp, (arrangement of dates) p. 281 [Ed. ii., p. 242, No. 6.] — tterarMsfffa, you are removed) transferred [you have changed your place from Him] A weighty expression, having an excuse blended with it. Jerome says : Galatia in our language implies transference, [removal from one place to another]. — anb rou xaX'stuvrog v/uag, from Him, who called you) One's calling, is therefore the channel of grace, the rule for the future ; ch. v. 8, 13. We have here, ver. 6—10, a Proposition [statement of the subject, viz. the calling] and a sort of Division of it into parts [diafytfrt] ; and the calling in [" into the"] grace [ver. 6] is treated of in continua tion from ver. 11 : the words "there be some that trouble you" are treated of, ch. v. 7., etc. — Iv %«p/r/, in grace [Engl. Vers., into