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Galatians reveals how Christ changes everything. Matthew S. Harmon traces the argument of Paul’s most polemic letter. In Galatians, Paul defends his authority and attacks his opponents’ arguments—and in both cases, the decisive factor is the Gospel. History and Scripture must be interpreted in light of Christ’s arrival. The new creation has broken in, leaving nothing unaltered. Harmon plumbs...

for refusing to break God’s covenant are said to know “that those who die for the sake of God live unto God, as do Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the patriarchs” (compare 4 Macc 7:19).326 This is resurrection language, and that fits Paul’s train of thought here. Whereas before his life was oriented to and directed by the law, now his life is oriented to and by God through his Son Jesus Christ (see below). Just as God tore down the Mosaic law with its regulations and built the new covenant through
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