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Galatians: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

As the early church took shape in the mid-first century A.D., a theological struggle of great consequence was joined between the apostle Paul and certain theologians who had intruded into the churches founded by the apostle in Galatia. Writing his letter to the Galatians in the midst of that struggle, Paul was concerned to find a way by which he could assert the radical newness of God’s act in...

God’s people Israel.24 They could then invite Gentiles to enter this forgiven people, trusting that their future forgiveness would ensue from their faith in Jesus, the Messiah, and from their observance of the Law as ratified by him. It is an hypothesis worthy of consideration (see Comment #28). However that may be, one point is certain: The formula is to a significant degree foreign to Paul’s own theology; for it identifies discrete sins as humanity’s (in the first instance Israel’s) fundamental
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