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"Yes, surely," returned the other; "our Lord himself spoke them, and Paul wrote them to the Galatians." "Who is this Paul?" Melissa asked; and the Christian replied that of all the teachers of her faith he was the one she most dearly loved. Then, hesitating a little, she asked if Melissa, being a heathen, had inquired the meaning of this saying.
'Among all my multifarious occupations here, I have not much time for reading; I am never alone night or day. I sleep on a table, with some twelve or more fellows around me; and all day long people are about me, in and out of school hours. But I have read, for the third time I think, Lightfoot's "Galatians" and I am looking forward to receiving his book on the Ephesians.
"He gave me that book, too," said Beetle, licking his lips: "There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure if another fails." Then irrelevantly: "Setebos! Setebos! and Setebos! Thinketh he liveth in the cold of the moon." "He's just come in from dinner," said Dick Four, looking through the window. "Manders minor is with him."
Paul was exhibiting and urging these important truths, on the wavering Galatians, he foresaw, that it would be objected, that the scheme which he advanced, tended to licentiousness that if men might be saved by faith without the works of the law, they might indulge themselves in sin that this would render Christ the minister of sin.
He fears the Galatians have lost God altogether. "Alas," he cries, "have you come to this, that you no longer know God? What else am I to think? Nevertheless, God knows you." Our knowledge of God is rather passive than active. God knows us better than we know God. "Ye are known of God" means that God brings His Gospel to our attention, and endows us with faith and the Holy Spirit.
Paul to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, the second to Timothy, and the Epistle to Philemon, all written from Rome at different periods, and that to the Hebrews, written from Italy, make no mention of Peter's being there.
The Apostle frankly expresses his surprise to the Galatians that they who had known God intimately through the Gospel, should so easily be persuaded by the false apostles to return to the weak and beggarly elements of the Law. I would not be surprised to see my church perverted by some fanatic through one or two sermons.
In Asia not only were most of the kingdoms Bithynia, Cappadocia, Syria likewise torn by internal quarrels as to the succession and by the interventions of neighbouring states to which these quarrels gave rise, but various and severe wars were carried on between the Attalids and the Galatians, between the Attalids and the kings of Bithynia, and even between Rhodes and Crete.
Paul hastens to tell the Galatians that they were exchanging their Christian liberty for the weak and beggarly elements of the world. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labor in vain. It grieves the Apostle to think that he might have preached the Gospel to the Galatians in vain. But this statement expresses more than grief.
'Oh, foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you? That is, literally, who has fascinated your senses by the evil eye? For the Greek is, tis umas ebaskanen? Now the word ebaskanen is a past tense of the verb baskaino, which was the technical term for the action of the evil eye.
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