Galatians

So that the law became our schoolmaster toward Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

For they bring forward also that Peter himself and the rest, pillars of the apostolate, were rebuked by Paul because they did not walk with straight foot toward the truth of the Gospel — by that very Paul, mind you, who, still raw in grace, trembling at last lest he had run or were running in vain, was then for the first time conferring with the apostles who went before him.

For "as many of you," he says, "as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

for to me the world has been crucified, and I to the world, as my divine teacher says.

Let the philosophers, then, confess that their teachers are the Persians or the Sauromatae or the magi, from whom they have learned the godlessness of the principles they reverence, ignorant of the ruler who is the maker of all things and the fashioner of those principles themselves — the God without beginning — while they turn to those poor and weak elements, as the apostle says, made for the service of men.

So far is it a contemplation of hope, in this span, through faith — not a presentation, nor a possession, but an expectation.

For if we are reckoned sons of Abraham by faith, as the apostle teaches, saying to the Galatians, "You know surely that they who are of faith, these are the sons of Abraham," when did Abraham believe God, and it was reckoned to him for righteousness?

Paul in his Epistle to the Galatians may perhaps allude to the peculiarity of their law:

What has been said of the whole law of Moses applies to circumcision, which was a kind of introduction to the law.

when to the Galatians, he asserts himself an apostle not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father.

for those the Apostle unteaches, restraining the perseverance of the Old Testament buried in Christ, and establishing the New.

"O foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?

"Manifest are the works of the flesh.

Let us see now whether the Apostle too observes the form of that term according to Genesis, assigning it to the sex, thus calling the Virgin Mary a "woman" just as Genesis calls Eve.