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This commentary traces Paul’s theology as it unfolds in his letter to the church at Galatia, and illuminates how the Galatians likely received and comprehended it. The author asks readers to imagine themselves as silent witnesses to Paul’s dictation of the letter and to observe, through a historical perspective, how Christians at Galatia might have understood Paul’s words.

we know of their cultural-historical setting and of the occasion of the letter. Here too there is a working assumption: Paul cannot have intended what the Galatians were in no position to understand. A commentary on Paul’s letter involves, therefore, taking into account the intended readers’ likely reception of his words. A consequence of this approach is that considerable circumspection is required in using the other letters of Paul for the interpretation of Galatians. Those other letters were not
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