Galatians

Again he ordered a synod of Galatians and Pontics to be convened near Nyssa.

Often, then, troubled by the Galatians, I was never able to answer them, awaiting your decisions.

And since not even the Galatians, had they prayed for it, could have obtained a more humane disposition, I am fully persuaded.

" But even if he has described that certain false brethren had crept in, who wished to carry over the Galatians to another gospel, he himself shows that the adulteration of the Gospel had no intention of carrying them over to faith in another god and Christ, but of preserving the discipline of the Law;

teaching likewise that the two pleas concerning the sons of Abraham ran their course allegorically among the Galatians;

After these riches, then, there was no returning to the weak and beggarly elements.

Alexander, in his work On Pythagorean Symbols, relates that Pythagoras was a pupil of Zaratus the Assyrian (whom some think to be Ezekiel, though he is not, as will afterward be shown), and would have it that Pythagoras besides heard the Galatians and the Brahmans.

At its head stood the prophets of the Egyptians, the Chaldeans among the Assyrians, the Druids among the Galatians, the Samanaeans among the Bactrians, the philosophers of the Celts, and the Magi of the Persians (who by their magic foretold the birth of the Saviour, coming into the land of Judaea led by a star), and among the Indians the gymnosophists, and other barbarian philosophers besides.

Wherefore Paul too, writing to the Galatians, says:

It was not without reason, that Cneus Manlius was accused by his Lieutenants of having made war upon the Galatians without authority from the Roman people.

” When Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia had wantonly obstructed the channel of the river Melas, which discharges itself into the Euphrates, the swell of waters bursting the mounds, the Euphrates rose to such a height, as to occasion excessive damage to the Cappadocians, the Galatians, and the Phrygians.

nec me praeterit Galatarum gentem credere in potestate parentum liberos esse.

though I am aware that among the Galatians parents are invested with power over their children.

The Gallic race, of which the Galatians were a branch, are mentioned by Caesar as having the institution of patria potestas:

Which things being made manifest to the Galatians too, he professes that he foretells and has foretold that those who do such things shall not attain the kingdom of God by inheritance — not bearing, namely, the image of the heavenly, as they had borne the earthy, and therefore from their old conversation to be reckoned nothing else than flesh and blood.

There are those who would have flesh and blood taken as Judaism, on account of circumcision — itself too foreign to the kingdom of God, because that too is reckoned to oldness, and is even elsewhere noted by the apostle under this title, who, after the Son of God was revealed in him to evangelize Him among the nations, did not at once refer it to flesh and blood — that is, to circumcision, that is …

So too they say that we, like the Galatians, are smitten as observers of days and months and years.

"O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?

" What do the Galatians read?