Galatians 1:1-5

Superscription and Address, Galatians 1:1-5.

WHEN this epistle was read in their assemblies the Galatians would hear, in the very naming of the apostle by himself, and in his greeting, an intense assertion both of his disputed apostleship and of the atonement through Christ; both of which their apostasy to circumcision had invalidated. The keynote of the whole epistle is struck, to their ears, at the start.