General Review

We have now devoted eight months to the study of the Epistle to the Galatians, and should in that time have acquired a thorough acquaintance with it, since we have had an average of less than one verse a day. It ought, therefore, to be a pleasant task to review the whole epistle in one lesson. It is self-evident that if this is done no one can stop to go into details. That has been done in preceding lessons, and it is to be supposed that our knowledge of details is now sufficient to enable us to take in any chapter or even almost the whole epistle at a glance. It is to be hoped that the interest aroused by this study is so great that every one will make the epistle the subject of much more study in the time to come.

Questions

1. 1.What important truths are mentioned in the salutation?
2. 2.What verses show the reason for the writing of the epistle? Quote them. Cite some verses in the third chapter that show the same thing. In the fourth and fifth also.
3. 3.How confident was the apostle Paul of the Gospel which he preached?
4. 4.What ground had he for this confidence?
5. 5.To what is the greater portion of the first chapter of the epistle devoted? Give a brief outline of it.
6. 6.How did Paul get his preparation to preach the Gospel to the heathen? What do you know about the first seventeen years of his Christian experience? Tell the occasions of the visits to Jerusalem, which are mentioned in this epistle.
7. 7.Who accompanied him on the second visit mentioned?
8. 8.What caused him to go? What question was then under discussion?
9. 9.What strong position did Paul take?
10. 10.Who were making the trouble? What was their object?
11. 11.Why would he not allow Titus to be circumcised? What then was at stake?
12. 12.What was Paul's standing among the brethren assembled in Jerusalem? To what were he and Barnabas formally commissioned by them? Who also was recognized as having a special work committed to him?
13. 13.Relate what happened after the return to Antioch from Jerusalem. Of what were some of the leading brethren guilty? How did Paul deal with the matter? Give the substance of his talk. What did he make most prominent in it? How only did he declare that righteousness could be obtained? What is the believer's relation to Christ?
14. 14.With what exclamation and question does the third chapter (as we have it divided) begin? From the first verses of this chapter, what can we learn as to the condition of the Galatians at the time of the writing of the epistle, and previously?
15. 15.What character is now introduced? What relation does he sustain to believers? What words to Abraham sum up the whole Gospel? What is the condition of those who believe? Who are cursed? Why? How can nobody be justified? How is this made to appear?
16. 16.From what has Christ redeemed us? How did He do it? What do the Gentiles receive as the consequence? What do we receive through faith?
17. 17.Tell what is said about a covenant in general. What covenant in particular is referred to? What is promised in this covenant? To whom were the promises made? What is the relation of the law to the promise? Under what does the law hold all? To what are they shut up? What, therefore, is the relation of the law to Christ? What does faith do for us? When we believe, whose children are we? (Compare John 1:12.) How do we put on Christ? What are all who are in Christ? What is their relation to the promise?
18. 18.What is under consideration in the whole of the fourth chapter? What two states? Why was Christ sent forth? Tell what is said about the two covenants? How are they represented? Where does bondage come from? Where freedom? What is to become of all bondservants? Whose children are we? (Are we really?)
19. 19.If we are free, what should we do? What only is of profit?
20. 20.To what have we been called?
21. 21.What is the prominent feature of the last part of chapter 5? What things are described and contrasted? What is the condition of all who are spiritual, or led by the Spirit?
22. 22.Give an outline of the sixth chapter.
23. 23.Mention some of the most striking exhortations of this epistle.

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