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Secondly, he met with them again in chapter 18 of Acts, at which time he carefully explained to them the faith in Christ, teaching us that we are made saved by the sheer grace of God through Christ, without the observance of the ceremonies of the law, and therefore of circumcision itself. Nor was success lacking; for he established not only one church, but many, and as it appears, flourishing ones in that region, as is clear from the inscription.

THE OCCASION.

The occasion for writing this Epistle was clearly offered by pseudo-doctors. For after the departure of the Apostle from Galatia, men imbued with vain opinions began to innovate much in those churches, so much so that they brought back Jewish rites, circumcision, the distinctions of times and foods, the observance of the new moon and the neomenia, all of which corrupted the simplicity of the Evangelical doctrine. And so that those things might prevail among the listeners, they did not abstain from calumnies, with which they contemptuously traduced the Apostle himself. Because he had not lived with Christ in the flesh, nor had he conversed with Him, and had not heard the other Apostles, who, contrary to the custom of Paul, did not condemn circumcision and observed other legal requirements. By these and similar things, they injured both the person and the doctrine of the Apostle. Moved by this, he wrote this Epistle. First, to correct the corruptions that had been admitted. Next, to reveal to them what kind of teachers they now had, namely impostors and corruptors.