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J.B. Lightfoot’s classic commentary on the Greek version of Galatians. Contains extensive verse-by-verse exegetical commentary, as well as “dissertations” on the people and churches of Galatia, the date and genuineness of the epistle, the ethnicity of the Galatians, “The Brethren of the Lord,” and St Paul and James, Peter, & John. Dr. Joseph Barber Lightfoot was educated at Cambridge and Oxford,...

for instance (Acts 20:4, 5), if indeed they are not to be identified with the two brethren already mentioned. The patristic writers, followed by several modern commentators, see in this expression a desire on the part of the Apostle to fortify his teaching by the sanction of others: ‘Faciens eis pudorem, quod contra omnes sentiunt,’ says Victorinus. Such a motive seems alien to the whole spirit of this epistle, in which all human authority is set aside. The Apostle in fact dismisses the mention of
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