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    Notes on the Epistle to the Galatians: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Epistle to the Galatians: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
    Notes on the Epistle to the Galatians: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    Notes on the Epistle to the Galatians: New Testament Bible Commentary Series

    By JOHN MILLER

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    Bible teacher John Miller explores the epistle to the apostle Paul finds it necessary to reiterate the true gospel, compared to the false gospel that the Galatians were being influenced by.  Hyperlinked verses are provided for all scripture references.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHayes Press
    Release dateNov 29, 2018
    ISBN9781386026068
    Notes on the Epistle to the Galatians: New Testament Bible Commentary Series
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    JOHN MILLER

    JOHN MILLER (1882-1968) was born at Blackridge, Scotland of humble parents. He was saved in his youth, baptized and added to the assembly then at Blackridge, halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow. He joined the service of the North British Railway Co. as a clerk but that occupation did not tax his mental talents. He belonged to a generation which produced many able brethren who had no opportunity of higher education in secular subjects. Their ability was used on the study of the Bible. There were a lot of such men in the Brethren Movement and some found their way into the Churches of God. He was one of them. At 26 years of age he became a full-time servant of the Lord and, at the relatively young age of 29 years, he was writing papers on doctrinal subjects for the overseers' conference. In 1925 when he was 42 years he was recognised as one of the leading brothers of the Churches of God. In the course of his work as a Lord's Servant he visited most parts of the Fellowship except Nigeria. In the U.K. he was known from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Isles, not only by saints in the Churches of God.  He studied the whole scope of Bible teaching and his vision took in the world. As a man, he was a very able man; as a man of God, there were few his equal. He was outstanding in any group of men and at all times a pillar among his fellows. Had he been a politician he would have made his mark among the great ones of the earth. He spoke like an orator as one may hear from a few tapes of his ministry which are available. There are many, many articles in Needed Truth and Bible Studies and Intelligence. His notes of the books of the New Testament can be obtained from Hayes Press.  He married Mary Smith, daughter of a former Lord's Servant, David Smith and they had ten children.

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      Notes on the Epistle to the Galatians - JOHN MILLER

      PAUL’S LETTER TO THE GALATIANS - WHEN AND WHERE WRITTEN (W. BUNTING)

      There is little firm internal evidence to help us to determine when and where the apostle wrote this letter. At some point disturbing news reached him that many linked with the churches in Galatia were being led astray by teachers who had come from Jerusalem. It may be that the letter was written during his long stay at Ephesus (Acts 19:8-10). The apostle reminds the Galatians of his infirmity of the flesh, and despite this, how they received him as an angel of God. Indeed, they would have plucked out their own eyes, and given them to him (Gal.4:13-15).

      The news regarding the defections in Galatia is most likely to have reached the apostle at Ephesus, shortly after his second visit to Galatia. There are certain points of similarity between this letter and the one written to the Romans, and some commentators are of the view that both letters were written from Corinth and about the same time. The fundamental truth of justification by faith, and not by the works of the law, is emphasized in both letters. On a personal note, the apostle drew attention of the Galatians to the large letters, or size of the characters, in which he wrote with his own hand (Gal.6:11).

      As a postscript to this letter, the apostle adds the poignant note, From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus (Gal.6:17). He refers to the scars of the wounds made upon the body of a slave by the branding-iron, by which he was marked as belonging to his Master. This is one of the few instances when the apostle uses the title Jesus. Paul bore in his body the scars of the wounds suffered for the sake of Jesus, and these marks testified to whom he belonged.

      COMMENTARY ON GALATIANS 1

      Gal.1:1,2

      It seems that the apostleship of Paul was challenged frequently by Judaizing teachers and others, and Paul had to defend himself and the divine character of his apostleship, as he did in 1 Cor.9, and elsewhere, even before the Corinthians and others who were the fruit of his work. Here he declares he was not an apostle either from men, as having been sent by men, or through man, as though man had had anything to do with his being constituted an apostle. His apostleship was through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead. Paul was an apostle of the risen Christ, not like the twelve whom the Lord called and named apostles during His lifetime. He describes himself as one born out of due time. In addressing the Galatian churches Paul joins all the brethren that were with him, although he does not name who these were. The Roman province of Galatia included the regions of Pisidia and Lycaonia. Four churches in Galatia are known to us, Antioch in Pisidia, and Iconium, Lystra and Derbe in Lycaonia (Acts 13:20-23). Note the difference between Antioch of Pisidia (Acts 13:14), and Antioch in Syria (Acts 11:19-30).

      Gal.1:3,4,5

      Paul salutes these churches of God with grace and peace from the Father and the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and says that the Lord gave Himself for our sins. Though some authorities give Gk. huper (for), the preposition which Paul uses in 1 Cor.15:3, which means over in a substitutionary way, there seems little doubt that Gk. peri, which means concerning or respecting, is the word Paul uses here. John, in 1 Jn 2:2; 1 Jn 4:10, uses Gk. peri in the words, the propitiation for our sins. The object here stated why the Lord gave Himself for our sins was not to take us to heaven, but to deliver us out of the present evil age. Here divine deliverance is in view in the sacrifice of Christ, like the deliverance effected for Israel through the blood of the Passover lamb of old. This deliverance to be effected through the Lord’s death is according to the will of God. It is one thing to be a believer in Christ, but it is something more to be a separated believer. A believer, if he would please God, cannot continue to walk as he once did according to the course (age) of this world (Eph.2:2). God’s will is that he should be delivered out of it. Believers have been taken out of the world (Jn 17:6), which it is our privilege to acknowledge, and are sent back into the world (Jn 17:18) to be witnesses for Christ. Hence it was that churches of God were established as centres of divine testimony, from which there was to be sounded out the word of the Lord (1 Thess.1:8). This testimony cannot be maintained in effectiveness if believers are not delivered from the world, from its ways

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