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The letters to the Galatians and Ephesians proclaim that Christianity was dependent upon nothing but God's free gift of grace, bestowed on all who would accept that gift by faith, Gentile and Jew alike. Because they declare this universality and confute the Judaizing Christians, these letters are some of the great theological cornerstones of Christianity, according to Dr. Barclay.

Paul’s mind goes on and on, not because he is thinking in logical stages, but because gift after gift and wonder after wonder from God pass before his eyes. To understand it, we must break it up and take it in short sections. In this section, Paul is thinking of Christians as the chosen people of God, and his mind runs along three lines. (1) He thinks of the fact of God’s choice. Paul never thought of himself as having chosen to do God’s work. He always thought of God as having chosen him. Jesus
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