Verse 2
We cannot identify all the Christian brothers who were with Paul when he wrote this epistle, but Barnabas and the Christians in the church in Syrian Antioch were probably part of this group.
The churches of Galatia were probably the churches in the southern Roman province of Galatia (Iconium, Lystra, Derbe, et al.) rather than those in northern ethnic Galatia. [Note: See the introduction to these notes above.] This is the only one of Paul’s inspired letters that he addressed neither to Christians in one specific town nor to an individual.
". . . the Church as the total community is not a mere aggregate of individual congregations; rather the local church is the universal Church in its local manifestation." [Note: Fung, p. 38.]
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