Galatians section headings (mostly from Lightfoot)

Question 1

Galatians 1:1-2:21

Answer 1

A. Personal, chiefly in the form of a narrative

Question 2

Galatians 1:1-5

Answer 2

A1. The salutation and ascription of praise so worded as to introduce the main subject of the letter

Question 3

Galatians 1:6-10

Answer 3

A2. The subject and occasion of the Epistle

Question 4

Galatians 1:6

Answer 4

A2a. The Apostle rebukes the Galatians for their apostasy

Question 5

Galatians 1:7

Answer 5

A2b. The Apostle denounces the false teachers

Question 6

Galatians 1:8-10

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A2c. The Apostle declares the eternal truth of the Gospel which he preached

Question 7

Galatians 1:11-2:21

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A3. This Gospel came directly from God

Question 8

Galatians 1:11-12

Answer 8

A3a. He received it by special revelation

Question 9

Galatians 1:13-14

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A3b. His previous education indeed could not have led up to it, for he was brought up in principles directly opposed to the liberty of the Gospel

Question 10

Galatians 1:15-17

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A3c. Nor could he have learnt it from the Apostles of the Circumcision, for he kept aloof from them for some time after his conversion

Question 11

Galatians 1:18-20

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A3d. And when at last he visited Jerusalem, his intercourse with them was neither close nor protracted

Question 12

Galatians 1:21-24

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A3e. He returned without being known even by sight to the mass of the believers

Question 13

Galatians 2:1-5

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A3f. He visited Jerusalem again, it is true, after a lapse of years, but he carefully maintained his independence

Question 14

Galatians 2:6-10

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A3g. He associated with the Apostles on terms of friendly equality. He owed nothing to them

Question 15

Galatians 2:11-15

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A3h. Nay more : at Antioch he rebuked Peter for his inconsistency in yielding to pressure from the ritualists

Question 16

Galatians 2:16-21

Answer 16

A3i. Peter was substituting law for grace, and so denying the fundamental principle of the Gospel

Question 17

Galatians 3:1-4:31

Answer 17

B. Doctrinal, mostly argumentative

Question 18

Galatians 3:1-5

Answer 18

B1. The Galatian folly

Question 19

Galatians 3:1

Answer 19

B1a. The Galatians are stultifying themselves

Question 20

Galatians 3:2-4

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B1b. The Galatians are substituting the flesh for the Spirit, the works of the law for the obedience of faith, forgetting the experience of the past

Question 21

Galatians 3:5

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B1c. The Galatians are violating the order of progress

Question 22

Galatians 3:6-9

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B2. Yet Abraham was justified by faith, and so must it be with the true children of Abraham

Question 23

Galatians 3:10-14

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B3. The law, on the contrary, so far from justifying, did but condemn, and from this condemnation Christ rescued us

Question 24

Galatians 3:15-18

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B4. Thus He fulfilled the promise given to Abraham, which being prior to the law could not be annulled by it

Question 25

Galatians 3:19-4:11

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B5. If so, what was the purpose of the law?

Question 26

Galatians 3:19-23

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B5a. The law was an inferior dispensation, given as a witness against sin, a badge of a state of bondage, not as contrary to, but as preparing for, the Gospel

Question 27

Galatians 3:24-29

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B5b. And so through the law we are educated for the freedom of the Gospel

Question 28

Galatians 4:1-7

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B5c. Thus under the law we were in our nonage, but now we are our own masters

Question 29

Galatians 4:8-11

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B5d. Yet to this state of tutelage the Galatians are bent on returning

Question 30

Galatians 4:12-20

Answer 30

At this point the argument is broken off, while the Apostle reverts to his personal relations with his converts, and reprobates the conduct of the false teachers

Question 31

Galatians 4:21-31

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B6. The law indeed bears witness against itself. The relation of the two covenants of law and of grace, with the triumph of the latter, are typified by the history of Hagar and Sarah. The son of the bondwoman must give place to the son of the free

Question 32

Galatians 5:1-6:10

Answer 32

C. Hortatory. Practical applications

Question 33

Galatians 5:1-12

Answer 33

C1. Hold fast by this freedom which your false teachers are endangering

Question 34

Galatians 5:1

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C1a. Stand fast in the liberty of the Gospel

Question 35

Galatians 5:2-6

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C1b. Do not be circumcised

Question 36

Galatians 5:7-12

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C1c. Pay no heed to the hinderers and troublers

Question 37

Galatians 5:13-6:10

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C2. The ethical application

Question 38

Galatians 5:13

Answer 38

C2a. But do not let the liberty of the Gospel degenerate into licence

Question 39

Galatians 5:14-15

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C2b. Love is the fulfilment of the law

Question 40

Galatians 5:16-17

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C2c. Walk in the Spirit, and the Spirit will save you from licentiousness

Question 41

Galatians 5:18

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C2d. The Spirit will save you from formalism

Question 42

Galatians 5:19-21

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C2e. The works of the flesh

Question 43

Galatians 5:22-23

Answer 43

C2f. The works of the Spirit, easily distinguished from the works of the flesh

Question 44

Galatians 5:24-26

Answer 44

C2g. Christ's spirit and human flesh

Question 45

Galatians 6:1-10

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C2h. Let me add two special injunctions

Question 46

Galatians 6:1-5

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C2h(i). Show forbearance and brotherly sympathy

Question 47

Galatians 6:6-10

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C2h(ii). Give liberally

Question 48

Galatians 6:11-18

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D. Conclusion

Question 49

Galatians 6:11

Answer 49

D1. The Apostle's own handwriting

Question 50

Galatians 6:12-13

Answer 50

D2. Once more: beware of the Judaizers, for they are insincere

Question 51

Galatians 6:14-16

Answer 51

D3. I declare to you the true principles of the Gospel. Peace be to those who so walk

Question 52

Galatians 6:17

Answer 52

D4. Let no man deny my authority, for I bear the brand of Jesus my Master

Question 53

Galatians 6:18

Answer 53

D5. Farewell in Christ