Paul’s discussion of the Law and Christ in Galatians is framed in spherical language. This is seen in his use of three key prepositions (ἐν, ἐκ, and ὑπο). Paul’s chief contrast is between one operating within the Law or within Christ as their basic realm of belonging. Those who are tempted to return to the sphere of the Law as their fundamental relation to God are at risk of transferring out of the realm of Christ, which for Paul is the only place in which favor with God is found.
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Garlington Don “Paul’s “Partisan ἐκ” and the Question of Justification in Galatians.” Journal of Biblical Literature 2008 3 567 589
Garlington Don “Role Reversal and Paul’s Use of Scripture in Galatians 3.10-13.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 1997 65 85 121
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Gerd Lüdemann, “ἐκ,” in Exegetical Workbook of the New Testament, Vol. 1, ed. Horst Robert Balz and Gerhard Schneider (Grand Rapids, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1990), 403. See also Murray J. Harris, Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012), 103.
Stanley E. Porter, Idioms of the Greek New Testament (London, UK: Continuum, 2005), 156.
See also Ben Witherington III, Grace in Galatia: A Commentary on Paul’s Letter to the Galatians (New York, NY: T& T Clark, 1998), 73.
Thus Kittel can state, “NT hearing as reception of the declared will of God always implies affirmation of this will as the willing of salvation and repentance by the man who believes and acts. There thus arises, as the crowning concept of the obedience which consists in faith and the faith which consists in obedience” (Gerhard Kittel, “ἀκούω, ἀκοή, εἰσ-, ἐπ-, παρακούω, παρακοή, ὑπακούω, ὑπακοή, ὑπήκοος,” Theological Dictionary of the New Testament, Vol. 1, ed. Gerhard Kittel, Geoffrey W. Bromiley and Gerhard Friedrich (Grand Rapids, mi: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1964) 220). Garlington here suggests a possible connection with Paul’s “obedience of faith” in Rom. 2.16 (Garlington, “Paul’s “Partisan ἐκ”,” 580).
Don Garlington, “Role Reversal and Paul’s Use of Scripture in Galatians 3.10-13,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 65 (1997): 108.
See E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism (Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1977), 12-23.
A. J. M. Wedderburn, “Some Observations on Paul’s Use of the Phrases ‘In Christ’ and ‘With Christ’,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 25 (1985): 90. Weddernburn argues that the phrase should frequently be seen in an instrumental sense, but does not adequately consider the importance of Paul’s spherical speech patterns and his emphasis on transfer terminology.
See Todd A. Wilson, “ ‘Under Law’ in Galatians: A Pauline Theological Abbreviation,” Journal of Theological Studies 56.2 (2005): 362-392.
Linda L. Belleville, “ ‘Under Law’: Structural Analysis and The Pauline Concept of Law in Galatians 3:21-4:11,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 26 (1986): 60.
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Paul’s discussion of the Law and Christ in Galatians is framed in spherical language. This is seen in his use of three key prepositions (ἐν, ἐκ, and ὑπο). Paul’s chief contrast is between one operating within the Law or within Christ as their basic realm of belonging. Those who are tempted to return to the sphere of the Law as their fundamental relation to God are at risk of transferring out of the realm of Christ, which for Paul is the only place in which favor with God is found.
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