of the Church. Our Lord, indeed, predicted the Church (Matt. 16:18), but He did not describe it. Apart from the revelation through Paul, we should know almost nothing of the Church. To Paul also was committed that body of truth concerning salvation which forms what he calls “my gospel,” and which is the great doctrinal basis of Christianity. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance, that Paul shall remind the Galatians who are forsaking him for teachers who claim a superior authority as coming
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