that focuses on the original author’s intended meaning. This perception has had a significant impact on the way modern commentators use “prescientific” exegesis. Apart from occasional references to Chrysostom and Calvin—the two most notable exceptions to the rule—and “juicy” quotations from Luther and a few other writers, one seldom sees a genuine attempt to grapple with the significance of expositions of Galatians that predate the middle of the nineteenth century.7 The first thing to be said in