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tia observance. Nor was there a lack of success, for he established a most flourishing Church of Christ there.

The occasion for writing.

An occasion was offered. For after the departure of the Apostle, pseudo-teachers began to innovate many things in the Galatian Church, specifically in rites which they instituted according to the Jewish custom, such as the distinctions of times, the new moon, the neomenia new moon festival, the observance of circumcision, and similar things. By these, they corrupted the simplicity of the Evangelical doctrine. And so that they might obtain these things among their hearers, they did not refrain from slanders by which they called the Apostle Paul into contempt, saying that he had not walked with Christ, nor had he heard the Apostles, who did not resist circumcision and observed other legal things. By such things, they called not only his person but also his doctrine into contempt. Therefore, the Apostle, moved by this, wrote this Epistle to them so that he might correct those corruptions and indicate to the Galatians what kind of teachers they now had, namely impostors and corrupters of Evangelical truth.

The Status.

A twofold proposition must be considered here, a General one to which the whole Epistle refers: namely that the Galatians should have continued steadfastly in the simplicity of the Apostolic doctrine, and not so easi-