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DISPOSITION OF THE EPISTLE

TO THE GALATIANS.

Who the Galatians were.

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The Galatians were Asian peoples, tracing their origin from the European Gauls, whom the Greeks called Galatians, and also Celts, having undoubtedly obtained the name from γάλακτος milk, because they had bodies that were whiter, not swarthy like the Italians or Spaniards, nor darkened like the Asiatics. Whence they were called brothers of the Germans, because there was a great similarity of body between them. How, however, they crossed from Europe into Asia, and finally obtained seats there between Bithynia and Cappadocia, see Strabo, book 12; Plutarch in the life of Camillus; Justin, book 25, right from the beginning; Livy, book 8 of the fourth decade; Pliny, book 5, chapter 32. They were called Gallo-Greeks, because that land was cultivated mixedly both by the Greeks and by the Gauls. To the East they had Cappadocia and the river Halys; to the West, Bithynia and Asia; to the South, Pamphylia; to the North, the Euxine Pontus. To these Gauls, or Gallo-Greeks, or even Galatians, the Apostle came twice. First, the Spirit prohibited him from speaking there, because he was surely being called elsewhere, as in chapter 16 in the Acts.