Galatians, Ephesians : New Testament Volume 10.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- General introduction -- Goals -- Perspectives -- Historical Context -- Patterns of Reformation -- Schools of Exegesis -- Reading Scripture with the Reformers -- A Guide to Using This Commentary -- Pericopes of Scripture -- Overviews -- Topical Headings -- Identifying the Reformation Texts -- The Footnotes -- Introduction to Galatians &amp -- Ephesians -- The Pauline Epistles in the Reformation Era -- Galatians and Its Interpreters -- Ephesians and Its Interpreters -- Principles of This Edition -- Commentary on Galatians -- Preface -- 1:1-5 Greetings and Blessings -- General Introduction to the Chapter -- 1:1 An Apostle Sent by God -- 1:2 Paul and His Brothers Write to the Churches in Galatia -- 1:3 Paul Blesses the Churches -- 1:4 Jesus Gave Himself for Our Sins -- 1:5 Glory Be to God -- 1:6-9 The Integrity of the Gospel -- 1:6 The Defection of the Galatians -- 1:7 Perverting the Gospel of Christ -- 1:8 An Angel Who Preaches Another Gospel -- 1:9 Paul Repeats His Condemnation -- 1:10-17 Paul's Conversion -- 1:10 No One Can Serve Two Masters -- 1:11 The Gospel Is Not a Human Invention -- 1:12 Paul Received the Gospel by a Revelation from Jesus Christ -- 1:13 Paul Once Persecuted the Church of God -- 1:14 Paul Was Zealous for the Traditions of His Ancestors -- 1:15 God Called Paul by Grace -- 1:16 God Chose Paul to Preach Christ Among the Gentiles -- 1:17 Paul Went to Arabia and to Damascus -- 1:18-24 The Journey to Jerusalem -- 1:18 Paul Went to Jerusalem -- 1:19 Paul Saw Only James, the Lord's Brother -- 1:20 Paul Is Not Lying About His Past -- 1:21 Paul Went to Syria and Cilicia -- 1:22 Paul Was Personally Unknown to the Churches of Judea -- 1:23 The Judean Churches Had Heard About Paul's Conversion -- 1:24 The Judean Churches Praised God -- 2:1-10 The First Visit to Jerusalem.

2:1 Paul Went to Jerusalem with Barnabas and Titus -- 2:2 Paul Went in Response to a Revelation -- 2:3 Titus Was Not Compelled to Be Circumcised -- 2:4 False Apostles Had Infiltrated the Church -- 2:5 Paul Did Not Give in to the False Apostles -- 2:6 God Does Not Judge by External Appearance -- 2:7 Paul Preached to the Gentiles and Peter to the Jews -- 2:8 God Was at Work in Their Ministry -- 2:9 The Apostles Extended Fellowship to Paul and Barnabas -- 2:10 Remember the Poor -- 2:11-14 The Confrontation at Antioch -- 2:11 Paul Opposed Peter When He Was Wrong -- 2:12 Peter Had Eaten with Gentiles -- 2:13 Other Jews Joined Peter in His Hypocrisy -- 2:14 Paul Confronted Peter Publicly -- 2:15-21 From Law to Grace -- 2:15 Jews and Gentiles by Birth -- 2:16 Justified by Faith in Jesus Christ Alone -- 2:17 Justified in Christ, Still Sinners -- 2:18 Paul Cannot Rebuild the Law -- 2:19 Dying to the Law, Living for God -- 2:20 Paul Was Alive Because Christ Lived in Him -- 2:21 If Righteousness Comes Through the Law, Christ Died for Nothing -- 3:1-6 The Folly of the Galatians -- 3:1 The Galatians Have Been Bewitched -- 3:2 The Spirit Received by Faith -- 3:3 Beginning with the Spirit, Now Relying on Human Effort -- 3:4 Suffering for Nothing? -- 3:5 The Holy Spirit Works Miracles by Faith -- 3:6 Abraham Believed God -- 3:7-14 Faith against Law -- 3:7 Believers Are Children of Abraham -- 3:8 Scripture Foresaw Blessings Through Abraham -- 3:9 Believers Are Blessed with Abraham -- 3:10 Those Who Rely on the Law -- 3:11 No One Is Justified by the Law -- 3:12 The Law Is Not Based on Faith -- 3:13 Christ Redeemed Us by Becoming a Curse for Us -- 3:14 Blessing to the Gentiles Comes Through Christ -- 3:15-20 Testament and Promise -- 3:15 No One Can Alter a Covenant -- 3:16 Promises Spoken to Abraham and to His Seed.

3:17 The Law Does Not Set Aside the Covenant and the Promise -- 3:18 The Inheritance Depends on a Promise -- 3:19 The Law Was Added Because of Transgressions -- 3:20 The Role of a Mediator -- 3:21-29 Restrained by Law until Faith was Revealed -- 3:21 Law Does Not Oppose the Promises of God -- 3:22 What Was Promised Through Faith in Jesus Christ -- 3:23 Prisoners of the Law -- 3:24 The Law Leads Us to Christ -- 3:25 We Are No Longer Under the Law -- 3:26 Children of God in Christ -- 3:27 Baptized into Christ -- 3:28 All One in Christ Jesus -- 3:29 Abraham's Heirs According to the Promise -- 4:1-7 Inheritance Through Christ -- 4:1 When the Heir Is a Child -- 4:2 The Heir Is Subject to Guardians and Trustees -- 4:3 We Were in Slavery to the World -- 4:4 When the Time Came, God Sent His Son -- 4:5 The Son Redeems Those Under Law -- 4:6 God Has Sent the Spirit of His Son into Our Hearts -- 4:7 God Has Made Us Heirs -- 4:8-20 The Backsliding of the Galatians -- 4:8 When You Did Not Know God -- 4:9 Why Turn Back to the World If You Know God? -- 4:10 Are There Special Days, Months and Years? -- 4:11 Paul's Efforts Among the Galatians -- 4:12 Become Like Paul -- 4:13 How It Was That Paul Preached the Gospel to the Galatians -- 4:14 The Galatians Had Welcomed Paul -- 4:15 What Happened to the Galatians' Joy? -- 4:16 Telling the Truth Hurts -- 4:17 False Apostles Alienate People from True Apostles -- 4:18 Zeal Linked to Its Purpose -- 4:19 Paul and His Children -- 4:20 Paul Wants to Go Back to Galatia -- 4:21-31 The Bound and the Free -- 4:21 What the Law Says -- 4:22 Two Sons: One Slave, One Free -- 4:23 The Different Births of the Two Sons -- 4:24 The Women Represent Two Covenants -- 4:25 Hagar, Mount Sinai and the Present City of Jerusalem -- 4:26 The Jerusalem Above -- 4:27 The Barren Woman Will Bear Children -- 4:28 Children of the Promise.

4:29 The Natural Son Persecutes the Spiritual One -- 4:30 The Slaves Must Be Cast Out -- 4:31 Children of the Free Woman -- 5:1-12 Exhortations to Steadfastness -- Paul Argues for His Doctrine of Faith -- 5:1 Christ Has Set Us Free -- 5:2 Circumcision Is Incompatible with Faith in Christ -- 5:3 Circumcision Is an Obligation to Obey the Whole Law -- 5:4 Trying to Be Justified by Law -- 5:5 The Righteousness for Which We Hope -- 5:6 Faith in Love -- 5:7 The Galatians Were Running a Good Race but Fell Away -- 5:8 This Does Not Come from God -- 5:9 A Little Yeast Corrupts Everything -- 5:10 Paying the Penalty -- 5:11 Circumcision Abolishes the Offense of the Cross -- 5:12 The Agitators Should Emasculate Themselves -- 5:13-18 Freedom in the Spirit -- 5:13 Called to Be Free -- 5:14 Love Your Neighbor as Yourself -- 5:15 Do Not Destroy One Another -- 5:16 Live by the Spirit -- 5:17 The Sinful Nature Is Opposed to the Spirit -- 5:18 If You Are Led by the Spirit -- 5:19-26 Fruits and Works -- 5:19 The Acts of the Sinful Nature Are Obvious -- 5:20 More Sins of the Flesh -- 5:21 Those Who Will Not Inherit the Kingdom of God -- 5:22 The Fruit of the Spirit -- 5:23 Against These Things There Is No Law -- 5:24 Christians Have Crucified Their Sinful Nature -- 5:25 Keep in Step with the Spirit -- 5:26 Let Us Not Provoke Each Other -- 6:1-5 Spiritual Admonition -- 6:1 Restore Sinners Gently -- 6:2 Bear One Another's Burdens -- 6:3 Pride Is Self-Delusion -- 6:4 Take Pride in Yourself -- 6:5 Bearing One's Own Burden -- 6:6-10 Precepts for Discipleship -- 6:6 Pay Instructors -- 6:7 A Person Reaps What He Sows -- 6:8 Pleasing the Spirit Brings Eternal Life -- 6:9 Do Not Give Up -- 6:10 Do Good to All People, Especially to Believers -- 6:11-18 Final Injunctions -- 6:11 Paul Writes in His Own Hand -- 6:12 Circumcision a Way to Avoid Persecution.

6:13 Even the Circumcised Do Not Obey the Law -- 6:14 Boast Only in the Cross -- 6:15 Neither Circumcision nor Uncircumcision Means Anything -- 6:16 Peace and Mercy to Those Who Follow This Rule -- 6:17 Paul Bears the Marks of Jesus -- 6:18 The Final Blessing -- Conclusion -- Commentary on Ephesians -- Preface -- 1:1-2 Introductory Greeting -- 1:1 An Apostle to the Saints -- 1:2 Grace and Peace -- 1:3-6 The Great Benediction -- 1:3 Every Spiritual Blessing in Christ -- 1:4 Chosen Before the Creation of the World -- 1:5 Predestined to Be Adopted -- 1:6 The Praise of God's Glorious Grace -- 1:7-10 Redemption through Christ -- 1:7 Redemption Through Christ's Blood -- 1:8 The Riches of God's Grace -- 1:9 The Mystery of God's Will -- 1:10 The End of Time -- 1:11-14 Our Inheritance in Christ -- 1:11 The Plan of God -- 1:12 The Praise of God's Glory -- 1:13 The Seal of the Holy Spirit -- 1:14 The Redemption of God's Possessions -- 1:15-18 Paul's Thanksgiving -- 1:15 Faith and Love for the Saints -- 1:16 Thanks and Prayers -- 1:17 The Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation -- 1:18 The Riches of God's Glorious Inheritance -- 1:19-23 The Rule of Christ -- 1:19 The Power of God -- 1:20 Christ Raised from the Dead, Seated at the Father's Right Hand -- 1:21 Above All Rule and Authority -- 1:22 God Placed All Things Under Christ's Feet -- 1:23 The Church Is Christ's Body -- 2:1-3 The State of the Unredeemed -- Introduction -- 2:1 Dead in Sin -- 2:2 The Ways of This World -- 2:3 Objects of Wrath by Nature -- 2:4-10 The Mercy of God -- 2:4 The Love of God for Us -- 2:5 Alive with Christ -- 2:6 Seated with Christ in Heaven -- 2:7 The Incomparable Riches of Grace -- 2:8 Saved by Grace Through Faith -- 2:9 Not Saved by Works -- 2:10 Created to Do Good Works -- 2:11-16 The Salvation of the Gentiles -- 2:11 Gentiles by Birth -- 2:12 Strangers to the Covenant of Promise.

2:13 Brought Near Through the Blood of Christ.

In this first volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, you will encounter the reformers? fervor for the gospel of justification by faith as they retrieve it from these two letters of Paul. Spanning Latin, German, French, Dutch and English authors from a variety of streams within the Protestant movement, this commentary speaks with singular passion to a diverse contemporary church.

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