Epistle to the Galatians
Послание к Галатам
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The Galatians were Paul's listeners not in order to observe the fulfillment of the law, abolished by the passion of the Cross, but in order to believe in the Trinity Itself and preach the new Gospel. But then some of the Jews themselves came, who wanted not to turn them away from the Gospel proclaimed to them by Paul, but to add to it their fulfillment of the Old Testament and, having been freed by grace, to again subject them to the yoke of slavery. And since they boasted in the name of Simon (Peter), who had the advantage among the Apostles of circumcision, Paul begins to write against them, saying this:
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