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Excerpt from The Shorter Epistles; Viz; Of Paul: To the Galatians; Ephesians; Philippians; Colossians; Thessalonians; Timothy; Titus and Philemon; Also, of James, Peter, and Jude The type of their religious worship in their pagan life in volved intense superstition and passionate fondness for ritual Observances. These traits of character reappear in their sudden lapse from Christianity to the ritualism of the J uda izing teachers. This Galatian population seems to have resided in. Rural districts; at least they are nowhere concentrated in large commercial cities. Sacred history makes no allusion to any city, great or small, but uniformly speaks Of the Galatian country or and never of any metropolitan church, corresponding to that of Ephesus, or Corinth, or Antioch, but of the churches of Galatia (1 Cor. 16: 1 and Gal. Consequently Paul's labors among them were in the form of missionary touring. The history alludes to two such tours, the first (acts 16: 6) in company with Silas, and Shortly after the great Jerusalem Council (about A. D. In the earlier stages of what is commonly reckoned his second great missionary circuit; the second (acts 18: 23) about three years later (a. D. Early in his third missionary journey. How much time he spent among them in either tour is not indicated. It does appear, however, that the people received him with warm cordiality and his message with great promptness and hopefulness. Paul's expectations were manifestly high and strong; his disappointment, therefore, was great and his grief deep when he found them so soon lapsed from the faith they had wel comed so warmly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.