following (“follow this rule”) and at 5:25; “let us keep in step with the Spirit.” For a comprehensive discussion, see Burton, Galatians, pp. 510–18. When used as a noun in 4:3 and 4:9 stoicheia has the sense of elements, rudiments, or basic principles, the “smallest parts which stand in relation with others” (Delling, TDNT 7:678). The word came to be used particularly in Stoicism to refer to the belief that the cosmos was made of four basic elements. All of matter could be explained as based on