Galatians, Ephesians, and Philippians. With Commentaries by the REV. W. SANDAY, D.D., Principal EDITED BY CHARLES JOHN ELLICOTT, D.D., CASSELL, PETTER, GALPIN & Co. LONDON, PARIS & NEW YORK. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] 101.i.635 THE NEW TESTAMENT COMMENTARY. GALATIANS, with Commentary by the Rev. W. SANDAY, D.D., Principal of Hatfield Hall, Durham. EPHESIANS and PHILIPPIANS, with Commentary by the Rev. ALFRED BARRY, D.D., Principal of King's College, London, and Canon of Westminster. INTRODUCTION ΤΟ THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE GALATIANS. I. Galatia.—The name Galatia | part of these dominions, with the is used in two senses. In ordinary exception of Cilicia Trachæa, bespeech it was used to designate came a single Roman province, that portion of Asia Minor lying which, for administrative purposes, chiefly between the rivers Sangarius was also known by the name and Halys, which was inhabited by Galatia. the tribe of Galatæ, or Galli. This warlike people had been invited over from Europe by Nicomedes, king of Bithynia, who repaid their services by a grant of land. Issuing forth from thence, they had been for a time the terror and the scourge of Asia Minor, but they had been at last driven back and confined within the territory originally assigned to them. These events took place in the latter half of the third century B.C. Their power was broken by the Romans in B.C. 189, and though for another century and a half they retained a nominal independence, in B.c. 25 they were formally annexed to the empire of Rome. a To which of these two Galatias did St. Paul address his Epistle? Was it to the narrower GalatiaGalatia proper or to the wider Galatia the Roman province ? There are some temptations to adopt the second of these views. In that case we should have a graphic account of the founding of the Galatian churches-for such they would be-in Acts xiii., xiv. At Antioch in Pisidia, which we are expressly told formed part of the kingdom of Amyntas, the Apostle had preached with success which had called down violent opposition. Iconium, to which he retreated, appears not to have been given to Amyntas, and wheJust before this final annexation, ther it formed part of the Roman during the reign of the last king, province at this time is uncertain. Amyntas, the kingdom of Galatia There is, however, no doubt as to had been considerably enlarged. Lystra-where the two Apostles Amyntas had ranged himself on were received so enthusiasticallythe winning side in the great civil and Derbe. On the hypothesis wars, and he had received as his that the Galatia of the Epistle is reward Pisidia, Isauria, parts of the Roman province, the scenes of Lycaonia and Phrygia, and Cilicia the first missionary journey would Trachæa. On his death the greater be directly associated with it. On |