The Letter to the Galatians - CCS by Robert Govett and published by Classics.
Both the Law and the Gospel come from God, and are therefore good. May we not mingle them, so as to obtain something better than either?
The Letter to the Galatians supplies an answer to this interesting and important question. Let us consider it! After the Gospel of God's grace had been carried to Gentiles. anc[ had made progress among them through the Apostle Paul's ministry, a counter-current arose at Jerusalem among the believers there, which sought to compel believing Gentiles to circumcision, and to keeping the law of Moses.
This was resisted by Paul He was witness of the true grace of God to Gentiles. Accordingly, the Judaizers poured contempt upon his person and authority. He is obliged therefore in this Epistle and in others, to maintain the entire independence of his apostleship. From the line of defence which he here takes up, we can gather the plausible things which they were in the habit of saying against him. How easy it is to run down and misrepresent the ways and character of the best of God s servants!
Paul was therefore obliged, in justice to the Gospel of Christ, to refute these falsehoods. This he does in the first two chapters of this Epistle. From the very first he launches out on this theme, which stirred so deeply his soul. His own position was closely intertwined with the Gospel he taught.
