29 Nov r 1815

Paul’s Epistles to Galatians

Gal. Ch. I

1

Verses 24

1 to 5. I. His title — Apostle by Jesus & God the father

2. 3. Salutation. 4. Jesus gave himself for our sins &c. 5. Glory to him.

2

6 to 9. They are removed into another Gospel: 7. ‘which is not another’ 8. Curses (twice) on him who removed them.

3

10 to 12 His gospel he received not of man, but of Christ.

4

13 to 24. Passages of Paul’s life.

5

13 to 17. Upon his conversion, he went not to Jerusalem to the apostles but to Arabia, and then returned to Damascus.

6

18 to 24 Three years after he went to Jerusalem and saw Peter and James (John’s brother) then to Syria and Cilicia, never personally known to the Jerusalem Christians only they had heard of his conversion.

Gal. Ch. II

1

Verses 21. Obscure account of his disputes with Peter and others at Jerusalem, of the partition treaty, & their violation of it.

2

1. Barnabas and Titus his supporters. Titus a Greek not circumcised. 3.

3

2. He went up by revelation

4

2. His discussion with the Peterites was prevented

5

Obscure censure on ‘ false brethren (4.) unawares brought in (by Peter?) who seemed ‘(to be somewhat’) in conference added nothing to him (4 to 7) obscure sentence not finished.

6

8. 9. 10. Partition treaty. James Cephas (i.e. Peter) and John on the one part, Paul and Barnabas on the other. Jews to James and C o, Gentiles to Paul and C o. James and C o to ‘remember the poor’ i.e. account to Peter for a part of their profits.

7

11 to 21. In breach of the agreement (such seems to be the charge) Peter and C o (at Antioch 11) operate upon the Gentiles, and by persuading them to be circumcised: and the Jews to continue to live as Jews, keep them away from Paul’s ship against the spirit of the treaty.

Gal.Ch. II.III

8

Paul and C o brought over to their party all ‘the other Jews’ and Barnabas.

9

Works of the law justify not. II. 16. See III. 2. 5. 10. N.B. These and all moral works certainly were in this place probably in all other places meant by Paul and others to be opposed to faith.

Ch. III.

1

Verses 29. Objurgation of the Galatians, who had gone over (he says) from him as antilegalists to the legalists: Sole Ground and business of this, Ch III, and the first 18 out of the 26 verses of Ch. V. to keep them such as were circumcised from continuing to Judaism, such as were not, from circumcising themselves and so Judaizing.

2

1 to 5. Sharp expostulation for their desertion 1 to 5 Intimation of his ‘working miracles among them 5.

3

6 to 29. Obscure argumentation to make them believe, that some time in the person of Abraham — thence before Moses’s law Christ was promised to all nations, on condition of faith in him.

Gal. Ch. III.IV.

4

24. ‘The law a schoolmaster (to bring us) to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 24 to 29.

Ch. IV

1

Verses 31. Still striving to bring them back or away from Judaism.

2

Quibbling arguments about servant, son and heirs. 1 to 7.

3

10. Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.’ This being so are modern Christian holidays and Sundays?

4

15. ‘Strength of their former attachment to him’ — ‘&c.: would have plucked out your own eyes and given them to me.’

5

20 to 31 Twisting himself (so he says) all ways, he tries to work upon them by an unintelligible allegorical argumentation about Abraham’s two sons, and his covenants and Agar & Mount Sinai & Jerusalem and Isaac and casting out the bondwoman and her son.

31. ‘So then brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the

free.’