Galatians B section headings (mainly by Lightfoot) Flashcards
Galatians 3:1-4:31
B. Doctrinal, mostly argumentative
Galatians 3:1-5
B1. The Galatian folly
Galatians 3:1
B1a. The Galatians are stultifying themselves
Galatians 3:2-4
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
Galatians 3:5
B1c. The Galatians are violating the order of progress
Galatians 3:6-9
B2. Yet Abraham was justified by faith, and so must it be with the true children of Abraham
Galatians 3:10-14
B3. The law, on the contrary, so far from justifying, did but condemn, and from this condemnation Christ rescued us
Galatians 3:15-18
B4. Thus He fulfilled the promise given to Abraham, which being prior to the law could not be annulled by it
Galatians 3:19-4:11
B5. If so, what was the purpose of the law?
Galatians 3:19-23
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
Galatians 3:24-29
B5b. And so through the law we are educated for the freedom of the Gospel
Galatians 4:1-7
B5c. Thus under the law we were in our nonage, but now we are our own masters
Galatians 4:8-11
B5d. Yet to this state of tutelage the Galatians are bent on returning
Galatians 4:12-20
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
Galatians 4:21-31
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
