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Reformation Commentary on Scripture : New Testament : Volume X : Galatians, Ephesians
Outline : The gospel of justification by faith alone was discovered afresh by the reformers in the epistolary turrets of the New Testament : the letters to the Galatians and the Ephesians. At the epicenter of the exegetical revolution that rocked the Reformation era was Paul's letter to the Galatians. There Luther, Calvin, Bullinger and scores of others perceived the true gospel of Paul enlightening a situation parallel to their own, especially the encroachment of false teachers and apostates on the true teaching of salvation by grace through faith. In the Ephesian correspondence, the reformers gravitated to what they understood to be the summit of Paul's vision of salvation in Christ. Looking back to its pretemporal source in the electing love of God also had an immediate impact on those Christians living under the duress of persecution and suffering. For the reformers, these epistles were vital, living documents that were capsule versions of Paul's letter to the Romans,
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