Galatians, Philippians, Philemon, I Thessalonians (Biblia.com)

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This volume of the Augsburg Commentary on the New Testament contains commentaries on Galatians, Philippians, Philemon, and 1 Thessalonians. Galatians was written in the heat of controversy. Paul believed the Gospel to be under a deadly attack that would destroy the churches he had founded and ultimately destroy the Gospel itself. He used all the arguments at his command to counteract that...

The term is applied to the 12 signs of the zodiac as the heavenly bodies that control human destiny60 (cf. the ritual calendar in Gal. 4:10). They are probably to be identified with the “world rulers” of Eph. 6:12, and possibly with the angels whom the Corinthians are to judge (1 Cor. 6:3).61 Humankind is in slavery to these lords and needs deliverance. Deliverance has come by a change in status. The rule of law and the elemental spirits has been allowed its full period of authority. But the moment

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