diff --git a/content/bible_journal/galatians_6:11-18.md b/content/bible_journal/galatians_6:11-18.md deleted file mode 100644 index 212fd09..0000000 --- a/content/bible_journal/galatians_6:11-18.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -+++ -title = "Galatians 6:11–18" -date = "2023-08-24" -+++ - -### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Galatians6.11-18) - -In a at least one of Paul's letters, the secretary who took Paul's dictation -inserted himself into the letter to send his own greetings to the church. More -often, though, we see evidence that Paul pens his own conclusions to the -letters. To the Galatians, he tells us that we could see the large letters that -he wrote, if we had his original manuscript. (Now I wonder if any scribe tried -to capture this style when they copied the manuscript.) I can think of a couple -of good reasons why he would do this. In chapter 4, he mentioned that the -Galatians would have given him their eyes if they could, which implies that -there was something wrong with his own eyes. Perhaps his eyesight was poor or -became so, and the Galatians could see these large letters and know for sure he -wrote them. - -Another possibility is that Paul really wants to draw attention to what he's -about to say. In the very next sentence he exposes the true motivations of the -ones trying to force the Galatians to become Jews. During the middle of the -first century, there was a movement of extreme Jewish nationalism. It's -adherents chafed mightily under Roman rule and were concerned about the -Hellenization encroaching on their way of life. They rebelled and agitated -enough that Rome eventually sent an army that sacked Jerusalem and completely -destroyed the temple in a.d. 70. Before then, these nationalists would be opposed -to the church welcoming Gentiles into its number, so Paul says the Judaizer -party is trying to make the Gentile believers into Jews in order to appease the -nationalists. - -Paul reiterates that circumcision in itself does not affect one's status. Even -those who trust in it can not keep the whole law. Instead, what counts is what -Christ has done on the cross and what He works through us because of that. -Nothing else matters in this world or the next, so let us make much of Him. - -* * * - -Your grace is more amazing than we can comprehend, and we are able to worship -You because of it.