Galatians A section headings (mainly by 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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Galatians 1:11-2:21

Answer 7

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

Answer 9

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

Answer 10

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

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Galatians 1:21-24

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Galatians 2:1-5

Answer 13

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Galatians 2:11-15

Answer 15

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