freedom from bondage to the Jewish way of life. Perhaps the absence of any of the language of the doctrine of “justification by faith, not by works of the law” in the Thessalonian correspondence indicates that Galatians was written after those early letters. If these observations are accepted as supportive evidence, then we may conclude (as I do) that the letter was written sometime between A.D. 54 and 56. Of course we must admit that theological comparisons with other letters have been used to support