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Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians is “spiritual dynamite, and it is therefore almost impossible to handle it without explosions,” says R. Alan Cole. “This letter is not one with a message simply for those of centuries earlier than ours, nor is it an Epistle that can be read in comfortable detachment without personal involvement. At every point it challenges our present-day shallow, easy acceptances...

he says, tēs charitos exepesate, you have fallen away from grace, where ‘fallen out of the realm of grace’ would be a better translation. No-one can be justified in two ways at once; we cannot be justified at the same time by faith in Christ and by our own efforts. It is ‘all or nothing’ as far as faith and grace are concerned. Paul probably could have proved this point even if the Judaizers were limiting their demands to the one rite of circumcision. But 4:10 shows that the whole range of Jewish
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