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by Van Lal Hmangaih
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INTRODUCTION
In this exegetical study, the paper focuses on Gal 5:1-6 with the HistoricalGrammatical method and it contains three sections. The first section presents the historical context of the
Epistle which contains authorship, recipients/addressees, occasion, purpose, place and date of writing. The second section follows with the literary context which includes the genre, themes and sub themes, the outline of the book, and the immediate context of the passages. The third section is the literary study and it focuses on literary forms, syntactical-grammatical analysis and word studies which consist of logic/argument or flow of thought. And the paper is closed with implications. As doing exegetical paper is a very critical word, the strength to do this paper is from above and the writer of this paper
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I. HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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A. Authorship
The text itself claims that the author of this epistle is “Paul, an apostle-sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead” (1:1; 5:2), and “all the brothers who were with” him (1:2). This fact is
“confirmed by the literary form and style, argumentative methods, and theological content, as well as by the tradition, which never doubted it.”[1] But, from the late 19 th and early 20 centuries some scholars denied Pauline authorship, yet their
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